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The photos were, of course, accepted by every single other agency I uploaded them to.
By @Geoff79
That was never an argument. Adobe has it's own moderation team and own rules.
...but I recently uploaded 14 shots and all 14 were rejected on quality issues, or similar content.
By @Geoff79
Quality or similar?
Quality always was a great checking, at least with real photos. The vast majority of rejections were perfectly acceptable. What is new, however, is the similar rejection. We have not yet found a solution for this. The forum is full of complaints. Adobe, however, is confident in its methodology.
By @Abambo
Well, claiming that sounds rather overconfident.
Just a few years ago, outsourcing that so-called “moderation” to third-party firms in third countries was absolutely normal and economically efficient. And I don’t think much has changed now — most likely, the assets we upload are being reviewed by some “IT junior” somewhere in “far India,” and when they’re in the mood, they follow the written rules, and when they’re not, everything just gets tossed out for any made-up reason. With a constant flow of hundreds of thousands of uploads daily, whether it’s one, ten, a hundred, or even a thousand rejected submissions — it doesn’t affect the business at all. Adobe doesn’t worry about it, doesn’t pay attention, doesn’t know, and doesn’t even want to know.
And thinking that there are “their own rules” here… hmm. What there really is is a set of contributor articles, “how-tos,” and practices for preparing and uploading assets. The current situation with rejections, by and large, goes against those very declared recommendations. That’s all the “own rules” there are.
By @AbamboWell, claiming that sounds rather overconfident.
Just a few years ago, outsourcing that so-called “moderation” to third-party firms in third countries was absolutely normal and economically efficient. And I don’t think much has changed now
By @AlexBond
Well, if Adobe hires moderators, the are part of Adobe's moderation team, not part of Shutterstocks moderation team. And the Adobe moderation was quite good and efficient, before they accepted generative AI submissions. Adobe completely failed in that. But not because moderators refused good assets, but because they accepted obviously flawed assets. And there is still a double standard. Photgraphies are checked more stringently than generative AI.
I never had an issue with the quality refusals, as they were very mostly OK. With the similar refusals, however, Adobe has introduced a tool that returns results, that we probably all can agree upon, are random and flawed. No single contributor, however, can determine how accurate or flawed the tool is, as we do have no idea, what other contributors get refused. Not all refusals land here.
And a few days ago some of my images from 3 years ago were brought down because of intelectual property issue... It's my property! I'm in rage.
By @Sana Dot
That's a different issue. The assets had some issue, or they would not have been removed. But you were not accused of stealing, or you would have been blocked. IP is sometimes very difficult to understand. I had two assets that I needed to edit multiple times, before I finally did hit the IP issue.
My attempt to talk to the contributor support ended with their mention that they have no interactions with moderator team, and all they could recommend was to share regrets in this forum.
By @ivank11134774
Sharing regrets here is good for releasing pressure, but as basically no one from Adobe reads this (may be one or two read some of this), it's worth what it is worth. As noone knows currently a winning strategy, we are all non-swimmers in the middle of the ocean.
Why shouldn't be there verities and different styles of same content so thebuyer can have more options to select from..
By @Neo-Arts
There are. But some contributors submitted and got accepted hundreds of basically the same assets. Now we have to live with this.
All these images were created with AI technology.
By @Dreamy_Songbird5E23
And what does that mean?
I suspect AI contributors are being hit especially hard.
By @daniellei4510
I suspect that it is in the context of masses. No photographer ever contributed 3000 assets in a row. At least not after they used up their stock. If you massively contribute, you will be hit massively by this, may be also because most generative AI contributors do not bring a lot of variation into their creative prompting.
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