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December 17, 2023
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AI refusal is not accepted by moderators

  • December 17, 2023
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Can someone tell me why I have so many rejections for AI images? I used mid-journey, I made 10 images per type 1 promnt, I looked at other popular bloggers for authors and Adobe stock analytics, and out of 390, less than 100 were accepted, this is very It’s a sad waste of a lot of time and I’m very upset by this approach of the moderators, I would be very grateful if anyone knows how to solve this problem or what to do for a higher percentage of content acceptance.  

 

In addition, I’ll say, maybe I don’t understand something, but when they don’t accept images on the theme of New Year and Christmas, then I completely fell, how can I not accept something that is currently in demand, why do they reject such images?

 

I added a small part of what was not accepted

 

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Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
December 18, 2023

1.  Abstracts are not big sellers. Besides, Stock has over 57 million of them (more than they can sell).

You're competing with way too much inventory.   Save the abstracts for your own projects.

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

 

2.  AI art is inherently flawed — bad geometry, competing light sources, poorly drawn details and other artifacts that make it unfit for commercial projects.  It takes a talented artist to see the flaws and make all necessary corrections prior to submission.   If you can do it, great.  If you can't, then take some courses to learn how.

 

3.  Sure, Adobe Stock could give a wholesale pass to every submission until customers complain and demand refunds.  But eventually customers would stop coming here & Stock would be out of business real fast.  Where would contributors go?  Back to a 9 to 5 job.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2023

Snow blurred background: no DOF and this:

 

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2023

@Denis5FBC the point is the idea for the images are good but, you can not rely on the AI to produce perfect images that customrs are willing to pay money for. Take the time to cleanup the images. Here is another example of the poor quality in your images.

  

Denis5FBCAuthor
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December 17, 2023

I completely agree if the moderators see the exact problems and refuse for specific reasons, I have nothing against it. I have nothing against it. BUT when they refuse illustrations and abstractions as a background, then my question is how can you check what exactly is in the abstract??? and there will be the same failure rate as with the interer, etc., it’s just not funny. 

George_F
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December 17, 2023

With all of your abstract images, the histograms on almost all of them are skewed towards underexposure and they have a simulated shallow depth of field leaving quite a bit of the image blurry.

 

Images with dark histograms usually don't print very well, and a shallow depth of field limits their usefulness as someone can easily apply blur in Photoshop, but can't sharpen a blurry image nearly as easily.

 

When searching for an asset for a project, I typically search for a sharp asset that I can blur to match the rest of my project.  I would pass on all of these, not because I don't like them but because they aren't useful to me in a commercial setting.

 

Keep in mind that you've asked for our opinions and we're giving them to you in the hopes that it's helpful.  Taking criticism is never easy but I hope you consider them with an open mind.  Cheers!

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer
Jill_C
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December 17, 2023

I looked at just 1 image, the last one, and saw many generated errors in the shapes of the ornaments, the ribbons and bows, etc. 

 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Denis5FBCAuthor
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December 17, 2023

I randomly chose images from all of them that were rejected for me, here you can set only 10, and I didn’t say that they were ideal, give me an answer, what then with images like abstractions, what didn’t you like? As I understand it, someone doesn’t check them, they look at 1 or 2 and reject them at 300-400? 

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2023
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I randomly chose images from all of them that were rejected for me, here you can set only 10, and I didn’t say that they were ideal, give me an answer, what then with images like abstractions, what didn’t you like? As I understand it, someone doesn’t check them, they look at 1 or 2 and reject them at 300-400? 


By @Denis5FBC

You understand it wrong. Every rejected asset got checked. But only for the first issue. There is no need to look further. With some (most?) of your assets, I even do not need a second to detect errors. And as moderators do not need to write reports, they are very good at refusing 100 assets in 5 minutes. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
George_F
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2023

On the super shallow depth of field images, I've always seen a lot of those posted here as rejections regardless if its taken with a camera or generated with AI.  Those are rarely accepted from what I've seen on the forums, there is just too much out of focus and it's easy enough to apply blur as a filter in Photoshop.  The snow in one of these looked like a filter to me which could lead to a rejection as well.

 

As for the rest, I was able to spot generation errors in almost all of them.  Zoom in on the bows of the presents, I found a lot of subtle generation errors there.  Many of the tree tops were cut off.  In one of the room images, the plant on the table continued through the window.

 

I hope this perspective helps!

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer
Denis5FBCAuthor
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December 17, 2023

I’m grateful for the feedback, but here Toko 10 can be shown, I’m not saying that they’re ideal, it’s just a very big refusal, and I don’t understand why just a random image of the same type may or may not be accepted, it’s not even 50%, but less than 20 -10% logic 0, I will believe in the comment above that AI is checked not by a person but by an algorithm.

George_F
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2023

Adobe has 29,000 employees, and who knows how many of those are image reviewers.  With potentially hundreds or even thousands of image reviewers, there is bound to be some slight variation of moderation.  I think this shows that there are actual humans reviewing the photos.

 

This is just my own opinion, but I think we'll see most of the AI assets in the database with errors removed in the future.  I seem to remember a few accounts being suspended until AI assets that had errors were removed.

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer
Participant
December 17, 2023

Hello,
I have had the same problem as you recently. It seems that images generated by AI are increasingly refused. I think Adobe wants to make a more qualitative selection. Out of 100 images submitted, I only have 15 that got through whereas before, I had 3/4 or even all of them.
Also, I have the impression that they have implemented an image pre-qualification algorithm because I have images which are refused after 1 day, something which did not exist before. They were refused after a few weeks.

Denis5FBCAuthor
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December 17, 2023

just a waste of time =(((

Abambo
Community Expert
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December 18, 2023
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just a waste of time =(((


By @Denis5FBC

Then quit! Customers are wasting their time to sort out your bad assets from previous submissions, that got accepted erronously. Do you think this is a show to make you happy? Adobe allows contributors to participate in this, as it really helps them to keep their customer base happy. Check the other side of the fora (customer side), what customers think about your bad assets.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2023

I really hope someday that AI artist will stop working for quantity and start working for quality. That will reduce the time needed for reviewers to reject the huge amount of AI generated images that are in error. It will also increase the number of approved images and will help the contributors sales.

Here 10 images were posted. Sorry but I only looked at the first image and immediately found an error that is AI typical.

Looking further I see more than 10 mistakes. 

For instance, look at the first step of the stairs and the table. Where does one begin where does it end? Why is there a hole in it?

Please review your images and edit out the mistakes.

 

(here the first mistake that I saw)

   

Denis5FBCAuthor
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December 17, 2023

It’s good if in images of the interior type the AI makes mistakes and for which the moderator does not let the content pass, but what can I say then for images of the abstract type? there is no relation to reality, no, it’s just abstractions and I have a lot of them rejected, I just can’t understand, I won’t deceive you and I put it that it’s AI and the client also sees, if you want perfect content, people can buy a photo and AI does what it can, in 99 cases in AI content can be found to a fault, I don’t see this as a reason to reject 90% of the content. and from one picture that you checked, can you draw a conclusion about all my images?

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2023

So, if I understand you correctly, assets can have issues because they are generative AI? The rule is that assets need to be "perfect" as buyers pay for "perfect" assets. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer