Similar images already submitted!!!

[Sobhy_AI]

Hello there,

I went from a 95% acceptance rate to 20% or less. Almost all of my submissions are being rejected for the "similar image" reason.

The quality of the images is really good and doesn’t have any issues.

I am uploading at most 2 or 3 variations of each object ,PNGs only and a variety of different items across many categories. I also make sure not to upload similar content that I’ve previously submitted. I am 100% certain that my entire account doesn’t have more than three variations of any given item.

Sometimes, I upload the same object in different styles.

for example, a car in a 3D style and another version in watercolor or clay, so they are still distinct. (2 to 3 variations for each style)

Is this a general issue that will be resolved soon, or is it only affecting me?

[lornet42765951]

It has to be a glitch, not a proper review.

I've sent a complaint to the team, linking to this thread. I doubt I'll get anywhere, but you never know!

[hopko]

I do quite a lot of macro insect photography. Can I make a living off it? No! But do my images sell? Yes!

A specific problem that I am experiencing with the "similar image already submitted" issue is that I am getting rejections of photographs that look alike but are actually completely different. Let's say I have had 2 images of grasshoppers. Both grasshoppers are green. But they are each a different genus/species! Even though this is described in the title and keywords, one or both get rejected. Do I have a lot of grasshopper photos in my portfolio? Yes. Are they different, yes!

The same has happened with my robber fly collection. If both robber flies happen to be black, or I already have a black robber fly in my portfolio, the image gets rejected. Never mind that it is a completely different species! So, anyone looking for a specific genus or species of a particular insect may not find it in my portfolio because they have all been rejected as being "similar" to other insects I have already photographed.

This is why we need human eyes on our work, not a bot that cannot understand how images may look alike but can be completely different things. Maddening!

[daniellei4510]

Images that are NOT similar to other images are still being rejected as similar. It's happening to a lot of contributors regardless of subject. I do believe there is a poorly programed bot that is doing this, but we are all at a loss as to why. It is suspicous, though, that the too similar rejections began at or around the same time that contributors began seeing older images that were previously accepted being rejected (often for being exact duplicates, not similar). Hopefully, this is temporary.

[Nancy OShea]

@hopko,

Can you show us examples of two bugs that got rejected for being similar?

[hopko]

Argh. My bug photos are on a drive that is not currently live. But I can give you a very recent AI example. I uploaded several "African Fabric Design" images. The lion image sold almost as soon as it was accepted (and they accepted 3 variations on the lion). A giraffe was rejected for being "similar". They are different animals! They also rejected a hippo and elephant as similar! I wonder what would have sold if they had been available. 

[AmandaYuyi]

@hopko , saw your 2 example work. They are totaly 2 different art work, sorry to see these 2 work are rejected due to similarity. 

[hopko]

Thanks. The cat was accepted (actually 3 variations on the cat were accepted) but the giraffe, a hippo, and an elephant were all rejected for being "similar"! Never mind that they are all different animals!

[Felix_Heller5779]

Hello everyone. Adobe Stoke made a reject of my photo under the pretext that I posted a similar picture. But this is not true. Can anyone explain what is happening?

hanks for giving us the chance to consider your image. Unfortunately, during our review we found that it's similar to another image(s) you've already uploaded, so we can't accept it into our collection.

Images must be different enough to provide additional value to our customers. We can't accept more than three color variations of the same image or similar images, and models must appear in different situations or with different expressions to be considered. Please be selective and submit only the very best from each image series.

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[kglad]

what app?

[daniellei4510 · Accepted solution]

A number of contributors are having assets rejected for being too similar when in fact they are not. We don't know why. Our only option is to wait things out until the situatioin is explained or fixed. Some have ceased to submit new assets in the meantime. 

[Abambo]

Argh. My bug photos are on a drive that is not currently live. But I can give you a very recent AI example. I uploaded several "African Fabric Design" images. The cat attached sold almost as soon as it was accepted (and they accepted 3 variations on the cat). The giraffe was rejected for being "similar". They are different animals! They also rejected a hippo and elephant as similar! I wonder what would have sold if they had been available. 

By @hopko

What cat? Do you mean the lion? They should have been rejected for quality reasons.

[hopko]

That illustration has already sold twice.

[Abambo]

That illustration has already sold twice.

By @hopko

That's good for you, but still, it should have been rejected with quality issues.

[hopko]

And a lion is a cat.

[Abambo]

And a lion is a cat.

By @hopko

Sure, but not all cats are lions... 🙂 When you create a lion, you probably prompt that you want a lion and do not prompt for getting a cat.

[Ivan28999453u1a1]

It's definitely spring cleaning aka automated tool with parameters "to delete all unnecessary assets from AS side of view"

Nope, it doesn't look like they delete or reject  only similar images , most likely they delete everything that the algorithm thinks is unnecessary in the database.

Example stats on AS serach

11/04

781,259,244 results in all

AI asset :

356,620,100 results in all

14/04

730,259,244 results in all

AI asset : 

316,620,100 results in all

Also, as an example :

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=Looking+up+at+blue+sky+and+palm+trees%2C+view+from+below%2C+vintage...

This is showing that "similar" still exist in the database, the same title and the same photo theme style , IMO.

In conclusion, more deleting than approving, so we should wait with submitting for a while ... 😅

[hotspurs99]

You may be right about waiting for a while before submitting because the recent problem coincided with the Layered Image Missions for AI training. That's my suspicion. I was invited by AS to submit and have been doing so for a while in recent weeks, with submission limits up to 2,000 sets per invitee (up to 5 images per set in some instances). This large volume of images for AI training would require lots of resources from within Adobe, and so I suspect inpectors previously doing inspection work on contributors' submissions may have been asked to do inspections on those submitted for Missions as a priority. I'm just guessing. The reviews for images submitted for the Missions take about the same turnaround time as previous contributor image submissions.

[Abambo]

That's my suspicion. I was invited by AS to submit and have been doing so for a while in recent weeks, with submission limits up to 2,000 sets per invitee (up to 5 images per set in some instances). This large volume of images for AI training would require lots of resources from within Adobe, and so I suspect inpectors previously doing inspection work on contributors' submissions may have been asked to do inspections on those submitted for Missions as a priority. I'm just guessing.

By @hotspurs99

If I could guess, I would guess that the missions are checked by a different group of moderators.

[hotspurs99]

My point is the latest Missions images are submitted by a lot of contributor invitees. Each contribute thousands multiply by the number of invitees contributing, and we're talking about tens of thousands of images. While they are not as strict about these Missions images, they'll still have to look out for things like copyright logos, etc. before approving. I cannot imagine Adobe hiring a very large group of inspectors to do just that, on top of the ones they already have doing their regular image inspection. And if the turnaround for such Missions inspections (based on my own experience) is within 1 to 2 weeks, I think it's reasonable to assume the same image inspectors were asked to do the Missions project as a priority (or because they pay better), which explains the delay in the regular queue for images on sale. That's my thinking.

[Jill_C]

Missions have been around for a while, and yet the Moderation team has managed to steadily review and approve >1 million assets per week on average for the last 9 months. The assets used for Missions are generally not subject to the same criteria for IP, similars and quality as licensable images, so I doubt that the need to check them has slowed down the Moderation team measurably. We don't have any way of knowing if they use a separate team for checking Mission images.

[Jill_C]

Adobe Moderators have been adding a million images EVERY DAY to the database since the middle of last year, which means that they're probably reviewing considerably more than that. The addition of thousands of submissions from missions is a drop in the bucket in comparison to their usual volume, so I doubt that this has had any significant impact on the overall reviewing process.

[Abambo]

The missions go into a different bucket.

[hotspurs99]

Missions into different bucket but do you know whether those Mission images are reviewed by the same inspectors or different ones?

[AmandaYuyi]

Not sure if Adobe is done  spring cleaning, but I can see total assets numbers in AS database are gradually increasing these 2 days:

Apr-14 14:30

731,218,047 results in all

Apr-15 12:00

732,471,166 results in all

AI asset : 

318,437,287 results in all

[Jill_C]

Based on my weekly analysis of Adobe Stock database growth, AI assets grew by only 485K per day last week, compared to an average of ~1 Million per day that has been maintained for many months. This is net of any removals from the database, so it could mean that 1 million new assets were added and .5 million were removed.