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Adobe stock is no longer fit for professional use due to the proliferation of generative AI

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October 29, 2025
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The subject header says it all really.

Working on an environmental documentary series that cannot use any generative AI images.

Due to the amount of un labelled gen AI video, I'd decided against using any Adobe stock. However, I needed a few additional videos and went against my better instincts to download some previews.

Then today I was dropping some of these into a timeline and out of the ten I'd downloaded, something seemed off and upon closer inspection at least 3 were gen AI .

The responsibility shouldnt fall upon the user to police this, it should fall upon Adobe. Any supplier who cannot provide some form of proof of authenticity for non AI conetent shouldnt be allowed to label it as such. End of story.

These very nearly went into the final cuts and as gen AI gets harder to spot it's going to become more of a problem.

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Nancy OShea

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When you encounter what you believe may be mislabeled AI assets, confirm it with an AI Detection Tool:

Steps to Report Mislabeled AI Assets:

Gather File Numbers: Locate the File ID number(s) of the improperly labeled images (e.g., File #: 766397860).
Report in Community Forum: Post the file numbers in the Adobe Stock Community forum, where staff and volunteers review complaints.

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Anonymous Aardvark

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Couldn’t the same process happen with a point-of-use report this image button within the asset’s information? There’s a button for reporting copyright infringement, so it makes no sense to put the onus and work on the paying customer. It almost seems like making a workflow this onerous is meant to discourage customers from reporting sub-standard content.

Adding a Report a Problem button could activate running the same tools that Adobe expects paying customers to do themselves. Claude could probably handle to code to make this happen. Not cool, Adobe.

Also, when you create a post the category options are: Ask a question, report a bug, and request a feature. This further confuses the person doing asset searches and just has a job to get done with a deadline, instead of doing Adobe’s job. Y’all have make a lot of progress with creating a better user experience for PhotoShop and Illustrator to make it easy to use, yet making it difficult for the stock photo customers to do their jobs. I’d appreciate understanding why this is the case.

Joe_wpi

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A few months ago I complained directly to Adobe about this. Client was building a stock asset project and many assets I came across were clearly Ai, but unmarked. There was no options to report Ai footage, so I complained directly to them and they gave me a reporting link. I reported at least 2 of the users ai videos, and I’m pretty sure all of their stuff was taken down shortly there after.

I agree with you this should not be the customers job. I already pay Adobe too much for the amount of work they make me do.
That being said, I think Adobe could stop this very quickly if they just had a better more simple reporting system. They currently have a report button, but no Ai reporting option!
ADOBE ADD THE OPTION.

charlest10608345

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https://stock.adobe.com/search/video?k=forklift%2Bwarehouse&search_page=3&asset_id=1204158256

I was looking for videos for a company video and found this. No driver and the way it’s driving down the shelves is absolutely embarrassing. Wave of the future.

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Coralie5F9B

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I agree. It’s becoming more and more impossible to work with Adobe stock for editorial purpose… We have to tell the public when it’s AI generated but the stock is filled with image wrongly labbelled so we have to “guess” it..

I useAdobe Stock for images and vector assets, unchecking the AI-generated content. But it’s still filled with AI! Some are just AI images very badly vectorized with Illustrator. It takes an aweful amount of time to clean them. Sometimes I have to redraw them fully...

If only Adobe would make it simple to report content or account that don’t rightfully label themselves as AI content creators… Maybe we would at least be able to clean a bit the “non-AI” category as users. They shoul add a third category, there’s only these two :

Content contains the names of people (including artists' names)
Content may infringe on IP rights (such as copyright, design, or trademark rights, model or property rights)

Abambo

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All assets get checked and even that the checking is not perfect, many assets get refused as being AI generated (even such ones that arn't). Sometimes AI generated assets pass through. If that is done systematically by a contributor, the contributor gets blocked.

I agree that the checking could be better, however.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Al YonderAuthor

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I thought that was fairly clear from the post.

Put in checks and balances - like other stock libraries manage to do - that preclude 'AI slop' being missold as 'non-AI slop.'

"The responsibility shouldnt fall upon the user to police this, it should fall upon Adobe. Any supplier who cannot provide some form of proof of authenticity for non AI content shouldnt be allowed to label it as such. End of story."

Abambo

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So, what is your idea here?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

JCS26847212jtmf

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That is up to Adobe to solve. There is a serious problem with AI-generated content not being flagged as AI. What is Adobe doing to stop this happening?

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