a new Captcha?

[Worker404]

Today I was surprised that there was, I think, a new additional verification of the captcha, in addition to the old type.

Previously, there was one captcha test, but today I found that a new captcha verification test has been appeared. It has become necessary for me every time to complete the old captcha in addition to the new one.

old captcha:

 in addition to the new one appeared:

[Instrumental]

How many images do you submit at once? It indeed was reported about the second captcha - https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/why-did-they-add-a-second-captcha-in-w...

[Worker404]

I don't submit alot at once.

Yes i may submit alot at a day, but not a once.

I learned not to post a large amount of photos at once since I had 70 photos rejected at once. I upload one photo and then submit it, then upload one more photo and then submit it.

How many images do you submit at once? It indeed was reported about the second captcha - https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/why-did-they-add-a-second-captcha-in-w...

By @Instrumental

[Jill_C]

How many per day? I'm wondering whether has implemented this second step on high volume accounts.

[Worker404]

Not to much like the one posting 100 assets, i think they are small group of friends uploading these amount "is this normal or causes ban?"

About me, i upload about 15~20 assests per day.

[Jill_C]

So far, excessive uploading will not get you banned; however, spamming or submitting too many similars might. I think that it more of a concern to Adobe than the sheer number of assets uploaded daily.

[Abambo]

Did it work? This looks like "I am keen to learn what is in the image"!

[Worker404]

I can't understand what do you mean clearly, can you please clarify it.

[Nancy OShea]

Hmmmm...  looks like Adobe is filtering out submissions from artificial intelligence bots.

[daniellei4510]

Perhaps, but these seem pretty easy to breach. Wonder why they don't try something more tried and true (if there is such a thing anymore). 

[Worker404]

That's what I'm saying.

It won't be Adobe if they didn't invent a new type of captcha.

Adobe is keen on inventing new types of Captcha, even though these types can be easily bypassed by bots. In fact, these captchas are more difficult for humans than for bots

[Nancy OShea]

@Worker404,

I don't think Adobe invented new Captchas. That's not their wheelhouse.  

Twitter/X has rolled out more sophisticated Captchas that require basic critical thinking skills. It's an effort to keep the automated bots from taking over. If humans can't out-think a bot, may god help us all.

[Niki15A7]

I know. It not only slows down the submitting considerably but it is also very annoying. I hope shutterstock will reevaluate and change it back. I don't mind doing it every once in a while but not with every submission.

[Jill_C]

This isn't Shutterstock. I assume it's Adobe's intention to slow down submitting so that Contributors will concentrate on quality rather than quantity.

[daniellei4510]

Shutterstock?

[Niki15A7]

I am sorry, of course I meant Adobe. Shutterstock is another site I am active on. There I don't have to do captchas and they have a great tool to add keywords. I can submit many more pictures in the same amount of time as here with adobe.

[Worker404]

I said it before, i tried Shutterstock before adobe stock, it's tools were more efficient than adobe, and the review times are much less.

The problem is that Shutterstock doesn't allow ai images.

[daniellei4510 · Accepted solution]

To the best my knowledge, Shutterstock does not allow AI. We suspect the capchas have been put in place to prevent uploads of hundreds of AI assets at a time. It appears it might be in need of some fine-tuning, however, especially since some people are seeing them more often than others. 

[Niki15A7]

I don't upload mass AI images (or any at all for that matter) I usually just do a couple of images each week and I get the double captcha now every time I completed all the info and press submit. I hate it.

[Jill_C · Accepted solution]

As I mentioned earlier, Adobe seems much more interested in incentivizing Contributors to submit high quality images, and they have taken some steps to make it harder to submit mass quantities simultaneously. I assume that these additional steps were made necessary by AI Contributors uploading huge quantities of poor quality stuff.

[Niki15A7]

This system invites more mass uploads. You get the captchas regardless of the number of uploads so better do one mass upload with once the double captcha than ten times  two or three pics with each time having to click on ugly cats and then writing a description to a picture. 

[Jill_C]

I've only encountered it one time so far, and I only submit photographs in small batches. I'm not sure how Adobe decides when to insert it into the submission process - maybe I'm just lucky so far 🙂

[Worker404]

Man this is the fourth time you said it. We knew what did you mean 😂.