‘Similarity to previously submitted images’ - I think a feature not a bug

[Kini-II]

I am following with interest the discussions about rejects due to ‘similarity with previously submitted images’. In my opinion, there is only one plausible reason for this. Since the phenomenon has been observed, it has been possible for customers to ‘generate variants’ for every stock photo. That is the solution to the puzzle. Adobe only needs one photo, the customer can generate the series or variants himself via AI. So it's not a bug but a feature that only individual photos are accepted from our photos. More is no longer necessary. However, an AI can never create variants like the photographer can. But that no longer seems to matter. I switched to AI a long time ago and have always created around 3 - 5 variants. But I was somehow lying to myself, because my portfolio of 3000 images actually only corresponds to 1000 unique images and I am somehow grateful to Adobe for sharpening my mind in this respect. Just my opinion.

[Abambo]

It's probably a new tool that Adobe uses, and it looks as it is ill configured. We are all experiencing this refusal at the moment.

[Jill_C]

Many Stock Buyers, probably most, come to Adobe Stock to find the right image for their projects because they don't want to spend the time to run through multiple AI generation cycles (which costs them AI credits) trying to create their own AI images. I doubt that this is the reason why Adobe is arbitrarily rejecting so many as similars lately...

[Abambo]

Professional users will rarely use the AI iterations to get a bad asset, that needs to be corrected a lot. It is, however, heavily used by those cheap web advertisings that you find on third class websites.

[Kini-II]

You're absolutely right. Jill as well. I've also played around with the AI feature on Adobe STock - so far it hasn't convinced me. Especially not if I saw myself as a demanding customer. The use as advertising spam images is of course possible. The cheap AI advertising images that are sometimes displayed by their AD service providers, even by very reputable websites, often make me shake my head.