Wait times for upload reviews-How is it going for you

[shaky camera]

I have been waiting for quite a while now on images to be reviewed. I noticed on one of the forums that someone else had a ton of images to be reviewed and,like me, had one image accepted but the rest have not been accepted or denied.

Is the current wait time much longer than 1 month?

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

If so, they met their goal, although it crushed my spirits, again. 30+ day wait times are crazy! I keep thinking how much I dislike AI for causing these issues =(

[Abambo]

If so, they met their goal, although it crushed my spirits, again. 30+ day wait times are crazy! I keep thinking how much I dislike AI for causing these issues =(

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

Progress is unstoppable.

[Jill_C]

None of us knows why Adobe Stock Moderators sometimes review images out of order. Mine continue to be reviewed in the exact sequence as submitted.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Lucky! And congratulations. Can you put in a good word for me? haha

[Nancy OShea]

I work on Christmas & New Years images in the Summer. 

I work on Spring/Easter images in the Fall.

And so on....

As a content creator, I have to submit content well ahead of target dates to get approval and allow ample time for revisions.  Plan ahead.  Don't wait until a few weeks before a major holiday to submit images.  You'll be too late to the party.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Yes, I get that and have images already waiting to be submitted for next Spring and Summer, but since I just began this 6 months ago, I made a quick dive for the holidays. It would likely have been OK if AI hadn't flooded the system!

Also, since I recently learned about the "Queue", I do my best to submit an image every day. What everyone was talking about seems to be true, unless it's just another random variable that I don't comprehend...

[Abambo]

It's an ever changing world. What was true yesterday may not fit anymore tomorrow. 

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

haha, true!

[Nancy OShea]

There's no point in exclusively blaming Generative AI for long wait times.  Review times vary based on how many total  assets were ahead of yours in the wait queue. 

On any given week, Stock receives hundreds to thousands of submissions in various categories.  And some seasons are busier than others.  It all balances out in the royalties you earn next week, next month and next year. It's all good.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

I'm sure that's true but the jam up began with the end of PSB, which allowed AI to flood in.

[Abambo]

I'm sure that's true but the jam up began with the end of PSB, which allowed AI to flood in.

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

What is PSB?

Sure, the troubles started with Adobe accepting generative AI and contributors started flooding the moderation queue each with thousands of thousands of assets. But it looks like good business to Adobe.

[daniellei4510]

Photoshop Beta? But if so, I don't see the connection.

[Abambo]

Photoshop Beta? But if so, I don't see the connection.

By @daniellei4510

Neither do I. The jam started a year ago, when Adobe allowed officially submitting generative AI. At that time, there were already masses of Santas with 3 hands in the database.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

They told me GF couldn't be used to make money until the first leg of testing was finished. I paid attention to when they gave the all clear and that's when MY wait times doubled. I assumed that was the reason.  If I'm wrong, please excuse my stupidity. All I can vouch for are my own personal experiences. 

[Jill_C]

What do you mean by GF?

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Generative Fill

[daniellei4510]

I think it's time we started spelling things out in full: GF = Generative Fill, not Girl Friend. AI = Artificial Intelligence OR Adobe Illustrator. PSB means Photoshop Beta, not Public Service Broadcasting. Only a few of us hear are geniuses when it comes to acronyms, or GWICTOA's (Geniuses When It Comes To Acronyms). I'm going to bed.

[Abambo]

I think it's time we started spelling things out in full: GF = Generative Fill, not Girl Friend. AI = Artificial Intelligence OR Adobe Illustrator. PSB means Photoshop Beta, not Public Service Broadcasting. Only a few of us hear are geniuses when it comes to acronyms, or GWICTOA's (Geniuses When It Comes To Acronyms).

By @daniellei4510

That may be a good idea, especially if the abbreviations are a bit out of the common.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

I will take under advisement, however, common sense and context clues are a wonderful clarifier. I have yet to see a Public Service Broadcast or Public Service Announcement (USA) on Adobe.

[Abambo]

I will take under advisement, however, common sense and context clues are a wonderful clarifier. I have yet to see a Public Service Broadcast or Public Service Announcement (USA) on Adobe.

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

I think that I'm quite good at acronyms, but I did never hear about PSB, GF and stuff like that. PSA: https://www.gesundheit.gv.at/labor/laborwerte/hormone-tumormarker/psa.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_swing_adsorption, https://www.psacard.com/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Group.

Make your choice.

[Abambo]

They told me GF couldn't be used to make money until the first leg of testing was finished.

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

Generative fill is now out of beta, and you can use that to submit to the databases. According to the rules here, they are considered as generative AI. (Generative Fill is not to be confounded with Context-Aware Fill, which does not use generative AI, and as such does not need to be marked).

[Abambo]

That's true Daniellei4510, but will buyers scan through far enough to get to last years images?

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

The search algorithm uses some obscure parameters, like time of upload (newer assets get priority), sales (assets with more recent sales get priority), interestingness (assets that often show up, but rarely get sold, get punished) and some randomness. But if you have similar assets from the year before, they have a chance to get shown by the similar assets. I have regularly old assets that start selling.

[Abambo]

Ahh.Ok thanks. It's just that it said 4 weeks. If it had said 8 weeks, I would have totally understood.
Thanks

By @shaky camera

They should make a dynamic prediction… but that is very costly (in programming that) and the use is limited. But it's progress from the original message, which said: “in the next days” or similar.

[Mixcity]

Hi Shaky Camera, happy Sunday to you! 

Here is my personal experience: my assets are all AI generated. The ones I have submitted as illustrations have all been accepted under a month, the other ones I have submitted as photos, despite being submitted before the ones labelled "illustrations", are still waiting to be reviewed.

So I found the moderation process much quicker for illustrations, which are certainly in a different review queue than the photos. Maybe it also depends on your acceptance rate. So far I had 100% acceptance with my AI illustrations (touching wood...) so maybe that's why this is going a bit faster. Also I don't submit many assets (I never reach the max quota).

In the end I am not really sure what factor in. But what is certain is that the code has not been cracked yet, and Adobe moderation times will continue to move in mysterious ways... 


 

[daniellei4510]

There's no second guessing what the logic for reviewing assets is. I submit 100% AI as well and I've had between one and two dozen images accepted daily for the past few weeks if not  months. Over the last week, however, it dropped down to between 1 and 4 per day. Maybe the moderators have been told to spread the love and review fewer images per contributor and more time appeasing a greater number of them, even if it means accepting fewer assets per contributor overall. No big deal, I needed time to do some catch up. 🙂