Why are my silhouettes and images being rejected for “similar content”?

[jaweria_2279]

As a beginner Hello everyone,
I need help understanding why Adobe Stock is rejecting many of my silhouettes and images. The rejection reason says: “Your content is too similar to what already exists in our collection.”

I create my silhouettes myself using AI and then I edit and trace them properly in Illustrator. I try to make them clean, simple, and high quality, but Adobe still rejects them.

Can someone please guide me on:

What counts as “too similar” for Adobe Stock?

How can I make my silhouettes more unique so they get accepted?

What things should I avoid so my work is not rejected for similarity?

Any tips from your own experience?

I will really appreciate your advice. Thank you!

[ZALEZPHOTO]

I will keep it simple, and please keep in mind it's my personal opinion mixed with facts...

Go to the buyer's website and you will see there're WAY TOO MANY AI assets already uploaded to Adobe. This happened in a short period of time. That is unsustainable! 

Focus on quality over quantity, or choose photos and videos.

Good luck!

[Premium Images]

What's the point of caring about quality if Adobe Stock randomly (and I emphasize, RANDOMLY) rejects 30-50% of submissions for "Similar Content" (even though there's actually no such similar content; I checked when I uploaded my images to the main page to search for similar images), and another 20-30% for "Low-Quality Content," even though it's higher quality than anything artists have ever created, and even than what Adobe Stock itself has previously accepted from me.

In essence, Adobe Stock, instead of hiring more moderators and limiting low-quality content, has now almost completely banned the publication of its AI images in an indirect way, in order to promote its own AI image-generating service.

Advice for those who create AI images: don't go to Adobe Stock. You won't make any money there, as Adobe Stock is killing off honest, high-quality AI image creators and is completely unprofitable.

[ZALEZPHOTO]

AI is very exciting and here to stay. But as impressed as I am with some AI generated imagery, it bores me. I tried Firefly for a couple of months, my nterest died quickly so I cancelled it.  

I assure you Adobe is more interested in subscribers to thier AI tools, than adding AI content to their stock division, which has gotten absurdly saturated with fake perfect AI assets.  Adobes' AI advancements in Photoshop and Lightroom are making workflow WAY Better and Efficient. My photos and videos have acceptance rates in the mid 90's% and enjoying month to month growth in sales. So I recommend you change the fallacy and negative mindset 

that money can't be made with Adobe Stock.

I agree! Adobe is not the right agency for most AI work. Focus on finding the right place to sell quality work and make it profitable.

Cheers!

[Jill_C]

Your assumption that Adobe has banned new AI assets is incorrect. They continue to add hundreds of thousands of new AI assets every day. Nevertheless, the algorithm they use to detect similars definitely seems to be flawed and many assets are unfairly rejected. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it except concentrate on submitting only our highest quality, most unique images and hope for the best.

[daniellei4510]

I have AI assets accepted every day. I'd estimate for every half dozen assets accepted, an average of one is rejected for similar content. 

[jaweria_2279]

how plz guide 

[daniellei4510]

I assume by uploading unique content with unique but appropriate keywords and titles. There are over 40,600,000 silhouettes available. I don't know what kind of silhouettes you are submitting, but I'd guess that most of all the possibilities have been submitted many times over, given the number available. Icons, wallpapers and backgrounds face similar issues. 

[jaweria_2279]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I understand your point. I know Adobe Stock is very strict with AI content, but I still want to focus on AI images because that is the area I am working hard to improve.

My goal is not to upload huge amounts, but to learn how to create clean, unique, high-quality AI images that follow Adobe’s rules. The refusals make me confused, so I am trying to understand what exactly I should change or avoid.

I respect that photography and video work well on Adobe Stock, but at the moment I want to continue improving in the AI category. Any tips or guidance for making AI images more acceptable would really help me.

Thank you again for your advice.

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

This image should have been disqualified for non-compliant borders. 

You're competing with approx 50 million silhouettes in Stock inventory. Most of them are sold as collection sets containing multiple variations. 

Customers are more inclined to buy assets that can be used in multiple projects like this one.

  

Hope that helps.

[Nancy OShea]

This is from the Contributor User Manual.

Photo Dos & Don'ts

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/editing-dos-and-dont.html

[jaweria_2279]

thanks a lot 

[jaweria_2279]

thanks