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March 30, 2025
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Hello there,

I went from a 95% acceptance rate to 20% or less. Almost all of my submissions are being rejected for the "similar image" reason.

The quality of the images is really good and doesn’t have any issues.

I am uploading at most 2 or 3 variations of each object ,PNGs only and a variety of different items across many categories. I also make sure not to upload similar content that I’ve previously submitted. I am 100% certain that my entire account doesn’t have more than three variations of any given item.

Sometimes, I upload the same object in different styles.

for example, a car in a 3D style and another version in watercolor or clay, so they are still distinct. (2 to 3 variations for each style)

Is this a general issue that will be resolved soon, or is it only affecting me?

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Correct answer daniellei4510

Hello everyone. Adobe Stoke made a reject of my photo under the pretext that I posted a similar picture. But this is not true. Can anyone explain what is happening?

hanks for giving us the chance to consider your image. Unfortunately, during our review we found that it's similar to another image(s) you've already uploaded, so we can't accept it into our collection.

Images must be different enough to provide additional value to our customers. We can't accept more than three color variations of the same image or similar images, and models must appear in different situations or with different expressions to be considered. Please be selective and submit only the very best from each image series.

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A number of contributors are having assets rejected for being too similar when in fact they are not. We don't know why. Our only option is to wait things out until the situatioin is explained or fixed. Some have ceased to submit new assets in the meantime.

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daniellei4510

Community Expert

You are not alone. Admittedly, I do a lot of portraits. And not necessarily of people in the middle of some activity, but simply studio-type portraits of AI models. It's probably due to my former background as a portrait/fine are/figure photographer. They aren't my bestsellers, but they sell regularly and, once one is sold, it often sells again. Sixty-seven times in once instance. And two of my standard, studio-type portraits have been purchased with an extended license. Simple bread-and-butter straight on portraits much like some of the ones seen below.

Anyway, here are examples of recent rejections for being too similar, along with recent acceptances. There are more, but I selected just a few. What is the difference between those that were rejected and those that were accepted?

I have absolutely positively no idea.

Again, these are all recent, within the past seven to 10 days since the "too similar" rejections started. What is the logic? Previously, except for possible quality issues, I have little doubt these would have all been accepted.

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photorebelle

Inspiring

It's very difficult to answer that question... unless there were quality issues, which I doubt, all of them should have been accepted.

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Sergei37432802f12q

Participating Frequently

This issue has become widespread over the past few months.
Attempts to contact support usually end with the same generic copy-paste response quoting the site's rules.
(Do they really think that people who are tech-savvy can't read the website themselves?)
Still, I believe that if enough people report this to support, the AI might eventually trigger some sort of "relay" and bring attention to the problem of these rejections.

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Craig_Z

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I wonder if they have intiated some AI program into the review process.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Or maybe they're looking more closely at what Stock Customers actually buy. The metrics may have shifted in ways that we're not aware of yet.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Craig_Z

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I would have to say this would have to be a huge shift, and if it is, why
would you make a change with this much impact on the resources that provide
the product you resale without any update or notice?

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Craig_Z

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The same just happened to me. I have always gotten 96-99% acceptance rate. I was getting images reviewed very quickly as of late but then a number of images were held up for a week or so and all of them got rejected for "similar images already submitted" over the last 3 days. Admittedly a couple were "similar", but in my opinion and experience (I have 4000+ images on Adobe) different "enough" but also a number of them were totally unique. What the heck is going on???

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Sobhy_AIAuthor

Known Participant

Read the comments here, you’ll understand what’s happening.

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muhammad_7751

Inspiring

Not only you..alot of contributer facing same issue

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Sobhy_AIAuthor

Known Participant

Look at my last comment

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Sobhy_AIAuthor

Known Participant

@daniellei4510 @Paper Ferry @photorebelle @stanislava_5223 @Abambo @hotspurs99 @Nancy OShea

Sorry for mentioning all of you

Update:

I uploaded 54 images three days ago. Today, I got 14 accepted and 19 rejected. It’s still a lot of rejections, but I think it could be a good sign, since in my previous submissions, almost everything was getting rejected (around 99%). Now, they’ve started accepting some of them.

Also, the rejection reason this time is “quality issues.” None of them were rejected for being “similar,” which is a positive change.

I hope you can try uploading some images too and share what happens, so we can figure out if it’s safe to start uploading again.

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stanislava_5223

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@Sobhy_AI thanks a lot for sharing. I still have A LOT of old images in review (some of them for 3-4 weeks already). But for the latest upload, I got only 3 rejections yet, and the reason is not the "similarity". Let's see how it goes further...

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Sobhy_AIAuthor

Known Participant

@stanislava_5223 I think all the images in the review since the problem started will get rejected (That's what happened to me) So you better remove them and submit it again

mattiew35443554

Participating Frequently

I am having the same issue!

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Sobhy_AIAuthor

Known Participant

Look at my last comment

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GraphiC KinG

Participant

Hi, I am facing a big problem. I uploaded some images to my Adobe Stock contributor account 10 days ago, but today they haven't been approved. They are saying that I have uploaded similar images before, which surprises me because I have never uploaded such images before.

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RALPH_L

Community Expert

This is a problem that has been reported several times here in this forum. Several contributors are expierincing the same problem. We have no answer.

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Wengchu

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It's not only you, It's all of us.. As of now its discouraging to upload new contents.. And no one from Adobe cared to answer emails or even write here in the community to clarify this matter. A clearly not similar images are tagged as "similar".

I think, they want subscribers to use their AI image generator from your image to produce a similar or other variations. And this is why I think they are surging the "rejected" tab..

For example; You submitted
Photo 1 - A photo of an asian man standing (Black suit) in the office with a laptop

Photo 2 - A photo of a white man sitting (Blue suit) still in the office (but different room) with a laptop
Photo 3 - A photo of a black man (brown suit) by the window still in the office with a laptop

(Now, from what I know and read from the terms.. Because I read them all. LOL.. Photos above are not considered as similar photos and they are valid variations - AI Generated or Photograph) You can even submit portrait & landscape orientation from photos above.. but now its not the case anymore. 🙂

1 or 2 of the photo above will be rejected and will be tagged as "similar".. because AI can now produce that same thing with differrent variations. you want the man in the office changed with pink suit? or maybe instead of laptop make him hold a mobile phone? differrent office setup? Ai can generate all of that.

***It's just a "hunch" but that is what I observed from the last 3 weeks.

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Sobhy_AIAuthor

Known Participant

You could be right, but I think it’s more likely a bug in the system. I noticed today that the whole database increased by 600,000 images - 450,000 of them are AI-generated, just in one day.

I do believe it will get resolved eventually, but the real question is when, and whether they’ll actually respond to us, I have no idea!

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Wengchu

Known Participant

This is what I am talking about.. This is the very reason we are seeing a lot of rejections due to SIMILAR IMAGES.
As what I have said, Adobe is pushing their AI generator to the subscribers, and just pays a small penny to the contributor.. Everyone should know this by now.
"Stock Contributors are compensated when you download generated variations"

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AmandaYuyi

Participating Frequently

Same issue happened to me. Many of images were rejected due to similar images already submitted, however, some images i checked back to existing adobe stock, no such similar image exists.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

See above contact info. Something is broken.

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