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'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWED
'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWED
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January 11, 2025
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ATTENTION! Starting today, Adobe Stock hides AI images for customers BY DEFAULT!

  • January 11, 2025
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I visit the site every day in the search section. And today I noticed that suddenly by default "Exclude Generative AI" is now set when searching!

This is a serious loss for the creators of AI content, because from now on AI content will sell even worse, several times worse.

 

 

Even if the user does not find a relevant image among regular photos and illustrations, Adobe Stock will not suggest options from AI content when setting "Exclude Generative AI"!

 

This is a terrible innovation for AI creators, about which the creators of AI content were not informed in any way. 

 

How long will it last? Or forever?

 

Is there any information about this anywhere? News? I have not received any letter from Adobe.

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    Correct answer Raul Ceron29343509

    Hey Contributors!

    As part of our commitment to providing the best experience for both customers and contributors, we periodically test user functionality for a subset of our customers      


    With the results of these tests, we continue to improve content discovery for our customers, enabling them to easily find the best content to meet their needs.      


    We will continue to keep the contributor community informed and engaged as we introduce new features and improvements.      

    Cheers!

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    Jill_C
    Community Expert
    Jill_CCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 11, 2025

    Adobe's Buyers have been requesting this change since the advent of AI in the database. Some have threatened to cancel their Adobe Stock subscriptions because they don't want to have to sift through AI assets to find what they need. I suppose some followed through on that threat. This gives them a quicker way of accessing the Filter Panel. If Buyers are looking specifically for AI assets, they can still quickly find them.

    Jill C., Forum Volunteer
      'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWED
      'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWEDAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      January 11, 2025

      Well, it's not surprising that customers are upset. I don't know how AI content moderation works, but it works extremely, extremely poorly with respect to AI content. Too much bad AI content has been and is getting on the site, which discredits AI creators as a new profession in the eyes of users (maybe this is a moderators' rebellion against AI content on Adobe Stock?).

       

      However, as has already been said above and as users have previously requested - it is necessary to add a Sticky, not a Permanent function for the checkbox.

       

      It would also not hurt the moderators to check all the posted AI content again and delete the one that is clearly of terrible quality. And be much stricter with new published AI content.

        Jill_C
        Community Expert
        Jill_CCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 11, 2025

        Many, many moderators were hired to deal with the deluge of AI assets. 85-90% of the ~1,000,000 new assets added to the database every week are AI, so it seems unlikely that Moderators would rebel against the job security that it provides them. 

        I agree that there are many bad AI assets in the database, however I think it's extremely unlikely that Adobe will re-assign the moderation time to re-reviewing previously accepted assets, which, at nearly 230 million, account for >35% of all assets in the database. 

        It's not a permanent checkbox and takes a split-second to delete it, so I don't think it presents any great barrier to a Buyer looking for AI assets.



        Jill C., Forum Volunteer
        'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWED
        'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWEDAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        January 11, 2025

        Is this a bug? Or is the function being gradually introduced to users?

        Some of the contributors I know have "Exclude Generative AI" appearing, while others do not. However, if I go to the site as an anonymous user, I see AI content when searching.

          'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWED
          'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWEDAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          January 11, 2025

          In addition:
          Switching the AI ​​content filter to "All" does not permanently save it for the user. Now the user must select "All" every time if they want to search all content on Adobe Stock.

          So this is not the Sticky feature that has been requested for two years, but a Permanent setting for "Exclude Generative AI", but with even more dire consequences.

           

          Not all AI content is that bad (though I agree that Adobe Stock moderators should be more careful about what content is allowed to be published on the site), or I don't understand what's going on.

            daniellei4510
            Community Expert
            daniellei4510Community Expert
            Community Expert
            January 11, 2025

            People asked for Sticky, not Permanent!

            Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.
              'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWED
              'NO-AI' NOT ALLOWEDAuthor
              Participating Frequently
              January 11, 2025

              At the same time, I don’t understand this innovation if it is permanent.

              After all, Adobe Stock will lose part of the income from selling AI images, since users simply won’t be able to quickly find images on the desired topic.

              As I said above, even when the search results are empty when searching by keywords, Adobe Stock will not offer to switch to searching among AI content...

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