No one at adobe is responding to my reports and questions regarding how to remove/report AI images that have not been marked as AI. The following image of a pickle is to me very obviously AI generated/manipulated. https://stock.adobe.com/images/glossy-juicy-dill-pickle-close-up/1489256671 I have never seen a pickle like this in all of my years art directing food. So I just wanted to make sure someone took a look at this artist’s work. Areas to note: Pickle lacks traditional shape and textures of other images populated in the search The highlight is reflecting nothing, and reflection locations do not make sense (the upper right and left side would never be lit this way in real life). The bumpy texture does not look natural. Real pickles have bumps that share the same darker color of the peel. These bumps are lighter and look more like “crisp” air pockets than texture on a vegetable. When reviewing this authors work, I feel they are not marking all of their images appropriately. I did not see AI marked for any of theses, and they are obviously not real food: Delicious Veggie Sub Sandwich on Crusty Roll Close-up of a Halved Soft Bun, Showing Airy Crumb Structure Juicy Mandarin Orange Segment Isolated on Black Background - Not isolated on black background….. Even though the image is titled as such. Also this is not a natural shape, screenshots attached from Adobe Stock of real mandarins and the real shape What is Adobe doing to 1.) Remove images like these, 2.) Doing to make it easier to report these issues? It breaks client contracts when AI is in imagery, and it appears its impossible to promise I won’t get AI images due to the lack of support around reporting these issues. I have reached out about this three times now and not a single person has gotten back to me about this issue.

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No one at adobe is responding to my reports and questions regarding how to remove/report AI images that have not been marked as AI. The following image of a pickle is to me very obviously AI generated/manipulated.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/glossy-juicy-dill-pickle-close-up/1489256671

I have never seen a pickle like this in all of my years art directing food. So I just wanted to make sure someone took a look at this artist’s work.

Areas to note:

Pickle lacks traditional shape and textures of other images populated in the search
The highlight is reflecting nothing, and reflection locations do not make sense (the upper right and left side would never be lit this way in real life).
The bumpy texture does not look natural. Real pickles have bumps that share the same darker color of the peel. These bumps are lighter and look more like “crisp” air pockets than texture on a vegetable.

When reviewing this authors work, I feel they are not marking all of their images appropriately. I did not see AI marked for any of theses, and they are obviously not real food:

Delicious Veggie Sub Sandwich on Crusty Roll
Close-up of a Halved Soft Bun, Showing Airy Crumb Structure
Juicy Mandarin Orange Segment Isolated on Black Background - Not isolated on black background….. Even though the image is titled as such. Also this is not a natural shape, screenshots attached from Adobe Stock of real mandarins and the real shape

What is Adobe doing to 1.) Remove images like these, 2.) Doing to make it easier to report these issues? It breaks client contracts when AI is in imagery, and it appears its impossible to promise I won’t get AI images due to the lack of support around reporting these issues. I have reached out about this three times now and not a single person has gotten back to me about this issue.

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

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Contributors in this user-to-user forum have NO influence over what Adobe does.

File a Feature Request in the Stock customer’s forum below.

If your request is viable & enough people agree, it might get Adobe’s attention.

https://community.adobe.com/feature-requests-33

[This discussion is locked as it has nothing to do with Contributors.]

Nancy OShea

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@graphics_4075

Contributors in this user-to-user forum have NO influence over what Adobe does.

File a Feature Request in the Stock customer’s forum below.

If your request is viable & enough people agree, it might get Adobe’s attention.

https://community.adobe.com/feature-requests-33

[This discussion is locked as it has nothing to do with Contributors.]

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nancy OShea

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Thnkgoc’s portfolio spans 78 pages, the majority of which is labeled A.I.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?creator_id=212702881

If an image isn’t satisfactory, don’t license it.

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c14444Author

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Well, duh Nancy…. But the point is this is a rampant problem. I went searching for pickles. I didnt go searching for THIS CONTRIBUTORS work….. If this is my experience for the last 8 months then Nancy I will be complaining. Have a great day

daniellei4510

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It would not surprise me in the least if I were to learn this image has actually sold...perhaps a number of times. If the contributor felt it was good enough to submit, and the moderator felt it was good enough to accept, then it goes to follow that a buyer will feel it is good enough to purchase. Unfortunately, there is no accounting for tastes. If a buyer purchases an image and learns after the fact that it has undeniable issues, they can let us know here and ask for a refund. This will possibly lead to the seller’s entire portfolio being reviewed.

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Jill_C

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For whatever reason, probably efficiency or manpower, Adobe has chosen not to provide a simple way to report mis-labeled or poor-quality images. It’s a very much a system of “buyer beware”. If you find a pickle that doesn’t look like any pickle you’ve ever seen, don’t license it. Unmarked AI is a different matter, though. Adobe “should” provide a way to report such images and should utilize AI tools to make sure every AI asset is actually labeled as such. Many Buyers and agencies simply don’t want to use AI in their designs, and they should be able to have the confidence that they won’t accidentally license an AI asset.

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This is a daily occurance. Of course I don’t license work that is terrible. But as you said, my clients dont want AI. So why do i have to check Adobe’s work? Because of contributors like I outlined above. The comments saying “just license something else” seem to think theres always a million images at the same angle that you need, or of the same type of food. Sometimes this is ALL we find. So yes, we need more confidence than whatever this is Adobe provides

Nancy OShea

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Adobe is not the only source for stock images. Just saying...

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nancy OShea

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Adobe Stock has a billion assets. Why are you obsessing over this particular Contributor? Who made you hall monitor?

As to why Adobe doesn’t make reporting easier, it’s because their Support Desk would be inundated with mishigas like this.

Unless you have solid proof, you can’t presume to know it’s A.I. generated. It could have been created with non-A.I. software like Blender which is perfectly valid and not a content violation.

Supply & demand will dictate how many downloads this pickle image earns. Probably not many because Stock has a million other pickles in inventory.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=pickles

Adobe Stock Support takes care of customer complaints & refund requests. When a Contributor incurs too many customer complaints, their account is flagged internally. That’s a private matter between Stock and the Contributor, not outside parties. Trust the process.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

c14444Author

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Because I find things like this everyday and spend way too much time cross-checking assets I expect to be marked as appropriately. Shutterstock doesn’t have issues like this, but I dont get a choice in the software I use. I have already emailed the consumer support line with questions and received no help. So here I am using this contributor as a perfect example of how this should be marked as an “illustration” not a photo. If things are allowed to verge between Ai and traditional hyperreal illustrations, then Adobe could at least learn how to file things appropriately and label them.

Cosmic Studio

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I’m no dill pickle expert, but the image looked odd to me too for something supposedly natural. However, it could still be artificial without being AI generated. I think the transparent look, the biggest red flag, might come from sloppy chroma key removal. If a green background was used, some of the pickle’s pixels may have been lost in the process.

The fact that this contributor has other similar assets labeled as AI generated makes me think they might have forgotten to mark this one, and possibly others. So yeah, I think you’re probably right.

daniellei4510

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I checked. It’s 98% AI generated.

One can always research assets here: https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images

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daniellei4510

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Marked or unmarked, one has to wonder how such an asset was accepted to begin with.

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Cosmic Studio

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Look at asset 1705727705. I thought PNGs were required to have a fully transparent background.

Jill_C

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For every PNG submitted, Adobe Stock automatically creates a version on white background.

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