Why Adobe Stock Keeps Rejecting My Files as ‘Similar’: A Broken Algorithm Case Study Hey there everyone,I’ve been a contributor since 2021, so it’s been more than 4 years now. In that time, only a few of my images were ever rejected, and usually for reasons like “Similar content already uploaded by you” (or something along those lines. I don’t remember exactly since they later changed the rejection message to “Similar content already in our collection”).Earlier, the Adobe Stock moderation team used to carefully review submissions and only reject images that were genuinely too similar. But nowadays, especially in the past few months, they’ve been rejecting a lot of content on this same ground. As I read in this link: Adobe Help - Submit Distinct Content So, in this case, I searched for an illustration of an avocado, and only 24 results came up. Now, you might think that if an avocado is already uploaded, I could try a line art style. But let me tell you, it will still get rejected. just look at the image below.On the same page, if you scroll down, you’ll see
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