Continued Frustration with "too many similars"

A half dozen more "similar" rejections, erroneously, in my opinion. I don't even get angry any more, at least as long as they keep accepting my abstract background and wallpapers. I no longer even count them against my "personal" acceptance percentage (my percentage after rejected assets are corrected and accepted), since I no longer treat them as even having been submitted. I mark them as "green" in Lightroom and fully intended to resubmit them when this nonsense is over. 🙂

Same happened here. Got some rejected images due to similarity and I don't see any similarity at all. I do understand when I get rejected AI generated images due to quality issues because I am still learning. But this is irritating since the rejected images have been in the reviewing queue for a longer time while other images have been accepted although I have uploaded them at a later time. And one of the rejected images I first found under the pending section where you get asked to correct it (here it was a matter of title and keywords). Anyway, I was also thinking of frustrated reviewers 😉

That's right. Lately, I've also experienced an increase in the rejection rate due to similarity. Some of my assets were even rejected because they were similar, even though I never submitted them.

My assets are indeed from AI, and each AI generates and each prompt contains no more than 4 images that I sort and submit. Previously, there was no problem when I submitted 3-4 AI images from the same prompt, now only 1 image from 1 prompt is still rejected because it is similar.

I analyzed Adobe's curation policy and system due to the increasing and massive submission of AI images, where many contributors spam AI images. #sad

Just thinking out loud. 

1. Adobe may be attempting to cut costs by reducing inventory.  Storing data costs money.

2. They may be testing a new evaluation algorithm.  If an image contains X out of N criteria, it's flagged as too similar to other inventory.

3. Stock customers can generate their own image variations now with the recent addition of Firefly.

I have had the same thing happen to my images. Submitted 20 images, and had 100% rejection rate. Reasons given: quality and similarity. My quality is the same as you have, I can't find anything wrong with them. It's super frustrating. I worked hard on creating those images, and if the end result is that nothing is accepted, and there is no clear indication what to fix, then what's the point in submitting? Adobe needs a better system for this.

Indeed, it is frustrating and there doesn't seem to be any logical answer. I had 9 out of 10 images rejected a couple of days ago for quality issues, and I can't find anything wrong with them. This has never happened to me before - my acceptance rate was high for a long time, but now it seems to be plunging... It feels like Adobe is trying to clear the queue by just instructing the Moderators to keep hitting the reject button.