Shutterstock has got a new 'fantastic' idea - 'Eligible for data licensing' - some of my new photos have been pushed over there and are not in my port. It's incredible how you get 'fooled' over time.

I wish I could delete them..

Can you only have a bare minimum of perhaps very generic keywords and then add the rest after the images are in your port? probably not worth the effort, but a pretty sleazy move by SS.

Quote from: pancaketom on September 12, 2023, 21:08
Can you only have a bare minimum of perhaps very generic keywords and then add the rest after the images are in your port? probably not worth the effort, but a pretty sleazy move by SS.

Thanks Pancaketom - but what will it help with only a few keywords ...?

You can opt out of the data licensing in your account settings

Quote from: ole999 on September 12, 2023, 21:19

Quote from: pancaketom on September 12, 2023, 21:08
Can you only have a bare minimum of perhaps very generic keywords and then add the rest after the images are in your port? probably not worth the effort, but a pretty sleazy move by SS.

Thanks Pancaketom - but what will it help with only a few keywords ...?

It might make the image pretty useless for data mining and AI training. Then if it gets accepted you could add useful keywords.

As far as I know they still save the images for data licensing even if you are opted out - just in case you opt in later or they change the TOS to make it impossible to opt out, and deleting your port might not even get rid of the images.

Quote from: Espie on September 12, 2023, 21:26
You can opt out of the data licensing in your account settings

Thanks - is it here?

Are only photos added to the data licensing or videos as well?

Quote from: dragonblade on September 14, 2023, 06:22
Are only photos added to the data licensing or videos as well?

Im my case only photos have been added to data licensing - for videos I had only accepted or rejected so far.

I have opted out about 2 months ago, and this week I also got 1 file "eligible for data licensing".  I hope that just means that "it would be suitable for data licensing but we won't use it since you opted out" ... 
Or, in other words, "the file is refused, we know you opted out, but we're using the new term because then we don't have to give you any reason of refusal" ...

Quote from: Anyka on September 14, 2023, 14:28
I have opted out about 2 months ago, and this week I also got 1 file "eligible for data licensing".  I hope that just means that "it would be suitable for data licensing but we won't use it since you opted out" ... 
Or, in other words, "the file is refused, we know you opted out, but we're using the new term because then we don't have to give you any reason of refusal" ...

Also remember that previously they used everyone's images for training without asking permission first.  So, do you trust them not to use the data that's conveniently in a catalogue?  Do you REALLY trust them?

in the I don't really trust them category, I suspect at some point they will change the TOS to allow them to use the data from these files if you are opted in or not - or more likely say that the TOS has allowed them to do that all along. There really should be a way to see and delete these files.

It would be nice if we could edit the metadata to make them do weird things to training sets.