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December 16, 2023
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Anyone submitting AI notice the increase in rejections all of a sudden? They keep rejection my item

  • December 16, 2023
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All of my items are being rejected all of a sudden.   My guess is Adobe is getting fed up with AI.   Anyone else having the same problem with Adobe rejecting AI?  I spent days cleaning this up and it got rejected immediately.  I spent days removing anomolies and it is still not acceptable.  It is watercolor and I have similar items like this selling in my portforlio.  Actually thinking of selling these on Etsy

Correct answer Jill_C

Adobe Moderators have acquired a lot of training in the past year with AI assets, and are now much more adept at spotting the errors. Adobe is definitely "all in" on promoting Generative AI. In fact, just yesterday they announced that they now allow generative AI vectors and videos to be submitted.

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Participant
January 26, 2025

The same with me, only two was accepted.  I don't submit AI only, I upload photography also and most real photo was accepted.  I have to learn more how to generate AI.

Known Participant
January 10, 2024

I created a post like this the other day. Previously my rejections were about 25% but currently they are about 80/90%

Abambo
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January 10, 2024
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I created a post like this the other day. Previously my rejections were about 25% but currently they are about 80/90%


By @shaky camera

If your assets did not get worse, Adobe needs to have put the bar higher regarding the quality requirements. With 80 to 90%, you should start changing your submission method. That is definitely too high. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Known Participant
January 11, 2024

Unless you're an Adobe representative, how do you know they're raising the bar for quality?
Based on what facts do you make this conclusion? won't you tell me?

Vilkasss
Participating Frequently
December 17, 2023

Yes, the rejections are up to 100% in the last weeks.

For comparison, i am also uploading the images to other portals, and images that do great there, are not accepted here.

Which for me sounds, like a loss for Adobe, because other sited are making money from it, but adobe does not.

It is also not a question of quality. I have sold a few images here, and many from my new uploads are cleaner, have removed "wrong" details, and stil no aprovement.

It just feels like more random than before. Well, now i use adobe mainly as "tag generator" for other uploading platforms 🙂 

I see that in every platform there are bitter people who are losing their "market share" to AI. Maybe it is scary when an program can deliver results that are comparable or even better, than a human that has learned years to do that.

So the AI users are getting the hate 🙂 I think it will calm down in the next few years, but as for now, we are comming in the "I am an real artist and i hate AI, this is not a real art ! " time 🙂 

Participating Frequently
December 18, 2023

Exactly the same. I have 86 % approval rate in other website (one of the main ones) and improving it each day as I improve myself. It also helps that you know why your pictures are rejected.


Adobe stock has been a rocky path for me since the beginning, I gave it a try and now I was getting more content approved and starting to sell pictures it feels like I'm suddenly being completely overlooked. It's also how quickly they reject everything now. My last rejected uploads this month have spent between 8-12 days on evaluation, while it was more than a month before. It's obvious what's going on.


It's their business after all and they can manage it as they want. But in my case I've had a subscription to PS and LR for years and if this continues I'm jumping off the boat 100 % in 2024 and going for alternatives, and I doubt I'm the only one.

Abambo
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December 18, 2023
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Adobe stock has been a rocky path for me since the beginning, I gave it a try and now I was getting more content approved and starting to sell pictures it feels like I'm suddenly being completely overlooked. It's also how quickly they reject everything now. My last rejected uploads this month have spent between 8-12 days on evaluation, while it was more than a month before. It's obvious what's going on.


By @David287897922ff2

Before the generative AI hype a year ago, the typical waiting time for moderation was 3 days or less. Whatever is obvious to you is not obvious to me… Moderation does not take a lot of time. It's very fast, and indeed faster for refused assets. The first error the moderator sees, the asset gets refused. But just a few months ago, moderators oversaw many issues, which led to bad assets being accepted. 

 

No refused asset posted here would have passed my QA check. Until now, I found always errors. Some errors were even very obvious. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
December 16, 2023

Good enough doesn't cut it anymore.  The quality bar is ever-rising as AI generators & upscalers up their game and Contributors get better at writing prompts and editing their work in post-production.  You're competing with some highly talented people who don't mess around.

 

Successful Contributors are always seeking ways to improve the quality of their artwork to meet the discerning customer's demands.  Would you rather have more rejections today or a flurry of angry customer complaints & refund requests later? 

 

Adobe Stock Reviewers must look at assets and decide if this work is good enough for today's buyer and will it remain good enough 6-12 months from now?  A good reputation & longevity are important to the success of Adobe Stock.  Remember this isn't social media, it's a royalty-free assets business.  Quality matters here.

 

If this doesn't suit you, you're free to submit artwork to other microstock services and see what they say. 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 16, 2023

You are certainly welcom to sell on Etsy. Adobe does not have a policy of exclusivity. So may do both?

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.
FernLAuthor
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December 16, 2023

Correct

George_F
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 16, 2023

I agree with @RALPH_L , it's hard to give meaningful advice without seeing the rejected assets.

 

@David287897922ff2 , same message.  If you want genuine advice, start a new post with few assets for peer review.  We aren't fakes as you say, but other contributors just like you.

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer
Participating Frequently
December 16, 2023

Yeah, the change has been noticeable. Until now I had around 40 % approval rate, but this month it's been 100 % rejections no matter what I do. I can understand if they were more demanding now and just a few of them got accepted, the problem is not a single one got approved and I keep getting rejections every day so it feels like they will block everything for some unknown reason while hiding behind "Quality issues".

 

Then they have some fakers on here telling people the problem is obviously the focus or some pixel in a corner so they don't raise their voice protesting much. My theory, they have too many pictures of every theme so they want to reduce the amount of work by scaring away the dispensable creators. It seems you and me are in this cathegory.

 

I noticed that previously it took around 1 month for them to decide on my pictures and now it's just a week or two before they get rejected. It's obvious they're getting faster at it because they're not even looking at them, they're just clicking at the X.

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 16, 2023

Your assertion that Adobe is "scaring away the dispensable creators" is nonsense. Remember, Adobe Stock only makes money if they approve images which are added to the database and licensed by Buyers. Asset Moderation costs them a lot of money, so why would they want Moderators to sit at a desk all day and push the "Reject" button? If they just wanted to reject all assets, they would surely automate that rather than having a human Moderator do it. 

My acceptance rate remains at about 95%, so your premise that they don't even look and just click X is silly.

The majority of your fellow Contributors who frequent this forum are accomplished Contributors who also have a skill in looking at images and assessing whether they're acceptable. They also invest a considerable amount of their time to provide useful feedback. Take it or not, but it is given in the spirit of helping you to improve. There may be a few "fakers" visiting from time to time and spreading misleading info, but you'll find that the majority of participants here are honest and thorough.

 

 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Jill_C
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Jill_CCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 16, 2023

Adobe Moderators have acquired a lot of training in the past year with AI assets, and are now much more adept at spotting the errors. Adobe is definitely "all in" on promoting Generative AI. In fact, just yesterday they announced that they now allow generative AI vectors and videos to be submitted.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Known Participant
December 18, 2023

Where can I see this announcement, why is it not there in this community 

 

daniellei4510
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Community Expert
December 18, 2023
Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.
daniellei4510
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Community Expert
December 16, 2023

I don't think a company that is actively promoting its own AI generating platform is getting "fed up" with AI. Rather, they are being more stringent with AI that is not necessarily bad but AI that is less than as perfect as it could be. 

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.
Known Participant
January 12, 2024

Please tell me, are you looking at new images on the Adobe website?
And who determines the correctness of your answer?
Are these also participants or an official representative of Adobe?

RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 16, 2023

It would be nice if you could upload 1 or 2 rejected images for us to review.

FernLAuthor
Known Participant
December 16, 2023

I have submitted my AI images in the past so getting feedback that there is a speck of dust when magnified at 400% is not what I am looking for.     I only wanted to know if anyone has seen an increase in rejected AI images this past week?  That is all!!  My acceptance has been around 90% so this is very unusual for me to have 10 rejected immediately.  Something has clearly changed!!!

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2023

Read the above posts. Adobe Moderators have gained significant experience over recent months, and there are now nearly  30 million AI images in the database, so they have definitely gotten more intolerant of flawed images. When rejected images are uploaded here for feedback, which is the purpose of this forum, it is rare for the community to find that the Moderators made a mistake and that the image should have been accepted after all... 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer