Why did they add a second captcha, in which you need to describe the picture?

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May 28, 2024
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I encountered a problem that when passing the first captcha (with cats), a second captcha appeared that asks to describe the picture, and if you enter any description, it will still show that the captcha has been passed. It turns out that this is not a captcha, but simply people describing pictures for recognition for free. Personally, I upload photos many times and I spend extra time.

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Haunterrr

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Yes, even though I upload 10-15 images every 2-3 days, I also got the second captcha. It's not a big deal, it takes 15 seconds. 😃

If I had a say at Adobe Stock, instead of coming up with new captchas to catch spammers of low-quality images using various bots, I would permanently delete such accounts (of course, after a warning or an official statement). There are certain rules for working on this platform, but you just need to select 'Recent' in the search to see a lot. Starting with descriptions, where it's clear at first glance that metadata without commas is just pulling in keywords instead of the recommended precise and short descriptions, and ending with photos/illustrations that are so awful (extra or missing limbs, various mutants, etc.) that it's obvious the author didn't even look at them and just uploaded them through bots (which are abundant on the internet nowadays). Some people are so fearless and don't mind wasting their time and money on subscriptions, only to have their accounts banned in the end.

Just my humble opinion.

Jill_C

Community Expert

I dont understand why they don't just disallow any means of uploading other than the web page or Adobe Lightroom Classic which has a Publish interface to Adobe Stock. Seems to me that nothing good can come from allowing any Contributors to do mass uploads. I perpetuates the fals belief that quantity is more important than quality.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Haunterrr

Known Participant

If we think from a financial perspective, what are the advantages of allowing mass uploads of assets? More assets to suit all tastes and preferences, frequent complaints about authors - blocking. If you want super high-quality images, go to premium or verified authors... At the very least, don't look for images labeled "Generated with AI." Well, this is my attempt to explain to myself why they have been allowing authors to upload hundreds of images a day for so long. YouTube is filled with video creators showing how easy it is to make thousands of dollars, so people are flocking to it

Abambo

Community Expert

Getting a good image description for free is very interesting for Adobe.

It may well be that the first captcha now gets resolved by bots.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Worker404

Inspiring

If that, why didn't it appear to normal people with small amount of images per day? They may thinking that we are bots because of the amount of images per day uploaded :).

The first captcha can be solved easily for bot, By adding the limited cat images to the bot programmatically, the bot will be able to solve the captcha ,The second is also easy for bots to solve. Today’s creative AI bots can easily solve it and write a creative description.Any programmer can add a bot API from the language models Ai to his bot and thus it will skip the second captcha.

I came up with a somewhat strange idea that perhaps Adobe would train a new artificial intelligence model to help choose titles and keywords, as Shutterstock is better than Adobe in this regard.

Abambo

Community Expert

Today’s creative AI bots can easily solve it and write a creative description.Any programmer can add a bot API from the language models Ai to his bot and thus it will skip the second captcha.

By @Worker404

But you need time to adapt your bot. For the first 50,000 assets, you don't even see that you failed the second test, and you get banned.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Worker404

Inspiring

What happens to you also happens to me. I think they want to make sure that you are not a bot or a spammer because you publish in large quantities.

I don't know the benefit of that extra captcha. Any bot can pass it. I think they can't accept that some people are enthusiastic and have the determination and way to produce massively.

Jill_C

Community Expert

I think Adobe has too many bad experiences with mass contributors. They can track the statistics of reject vs. acceptance on large batches / large volume contributors. Contributors with high acceptance rates cost them too much to moderate. With 77.6 million AI assets now in the database, representing ~18% of the total, perhaps they want to slow down the influx and encourage Contributors to focus on quakity rather than quantity.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

Jill_C

Community Expert

I assume that the bots are finding it too easy to defeat the "cats captcha", so Adobe has added another layer of security to hold off the spammers trying to upload massive numbers of assets using bots. There have been a couple of reports on the Adobe Stock Discord server earlier today, but I haven't seen this second step yet. How many images were you attempting to submit many images simultaneously?

Jill C., Forum Volunteer