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Andrew28402168wx0r
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August 30, 2025
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Is it possible that submissions are reviewed by the bot instead of human?

  • August 30, 2025
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So recently i had mass rejection of my assets with reasoning "simillar content was found in our collection". However, i failed to find such assets myself when i searched the stock. 

For example, this is the rejected picture of the female monk in the pixel art style. 

And this is the results of the entire search results on this subject:

There are no more pictures found. None of the found ones look simillar enough to justify such removal reason, especially if you consider the wording of the rejection:

I fail to see how this character is too repetitive to the other female monk picture in pixel art style that are present on the site. 


Most of the other rejected pictures are the same. Few are indeed already have simillar assets, like wizards, for example, but absolute majority does not have any simillar analogues in database. So i can think about two possible reason for such rejections:

1) Bot reviewed my content instead of human. This is the most likely one since the rejection reason does not make any logical sense and if there was a way to dispute such decicion, i am absolutly sure that the actual human reviewer would not be able to provide links for any simillar content.

2) A malicios person who want to finish job fast, so they just stamp random reason to randomly deny things if they don't feel like they want to do the job. Less likely, but since there seem to be no reason to actually contact Adobe and ask questions about such actions it is not impossible thing, since the superiors will never find out about such behavior. 

Maybe there are the thrid option, but i can't think of one. Maybe someone on this forum can? 

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    Jill_C
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    Jill_CCommunity Expert
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    August 30, 2025

    Indeed, there is a widely held belief in the Contributor community that Adobe has been using an automated algorithm for at least part of the review process since about March of this year. Rejections for both "similars" and "quality issues" went up dramatically for many of us around that time. I think they've tweaked the process somewhat, but there are still many rejections, some of which appear to be unjustifiable. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it. This seems to be the "new normal" for Adobe Stock.

    Jill C., Forum Volunteer
      daniellei4510
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      daniellei4510Community Expert
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      August 30, 2025

      It is certainly possible if not likely that a bot is searching titles and keywords to make arrive at a "similar content" rejection. But the idea that a malicious moderator is doing so doesn't make sense. It would be just as easy to approve all the images submitted, or to choose another reason rejection reason entirely, as it would be to select "similar content" en masse. 

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        Andrew28402168wx0rAuthor
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        August 30, 2025

        Approving everything would be dangerous because if low quality content will appear, questions will arise. 

        And i had this suspicion because i also had mass rejection for other reason that also did not made any sense before. 

        But i also believe that this suspicion is much less likely than case being handled by the automated system. 

        daniellei4510
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        daniellei4510Community Expert
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        August 30, 2025

        This is just one example of an asset that was originally rejected for similar content. I used fairly generic keywords: "beauty, fashion, woman, model, black and white, glamor, glamorous, sensual, sensuality, hair, bun, pony tail" etc. I don't recall the original title, but again, it was fairly generic.

         

        I resubmitted the asset with the following keywords: "makeup, bedtime, routine, cleanse, skin care, skincare, cosmetics, preparation, health, beauty, complexion," etc. and retitled it "Black and white fashion headshot promoting skin care, a bedtime routine, or natural cosmetics. Three-quarter profile. Studio portrait of a woman with bare shoulders." The asset was accepted.

         

        In other words, I gave the image context. I had the model actually doing something, rather than just posing in a studio environment. 

         

        This method hasn't always worked, but it has worked more often than not.

         

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