Why did they add a second captcha, in which you need to describe the picture?

[Gefoil]

I encountered a problem that when passing the first captcha (with cats), a second captcha appeared that asks to describe the picture, and if you enter any description, it will still show that the captcha has been passed. It turns out that this is not a captcha, but simply people describing pictures for recognition for free. Personally, I upload photos many times and I spend extra time.

[daniellei4510]

Interesting. I've been getting the cats more than usual lately, but I haven't come across anything like this. Anyone else?

[Gefoil]

I get cats 100% of the time, so I also added this. My reception is good and I download often.

[Oranuus]

Can you tell me how you upload all this photo in one day?

Note:All 100 images might be refused as one package

[Abambo]

Can you tell me how you upload all this photo in one day?

By @Oranuus

You select 100 pictures and drop them in the upload section, or you submit via Lightroom Classic, or you submit via ftp.

Note:All 100 images might be refused as one package

By @Oranuus

They may earn a refusal, each one, individually. There is no “package refusal”. If they get moderated by the same moderator, however, that moderator will have the eye at what errors to look at. Easy refusals then.

[Jill_C]

I assume that the bots are finding it too easy to defeat the "cats captcha", so Adobe has added another layer of security to hold off the spammers trying to upload massive numbers of assets using bots.  There have been a couple of reports on the Adobe Stock Discord server earlier today, but I haven't seen this second step yet. How many images were you attempting to submit many images simultaneously?

[Gefoil]

I always send 100 images at a time. Because I can create a lot of content. but accepts images > 90%

[Gefoil]

And this is not a captcha, since I tried to enter a random description of the picture, and it showed that it was accepted, so I don’t think it’s from bots.

[Jill_C]

Your submission of 100 assets at a time is probably why you're seeing this. I submit only a few a day. It's not from bots - it's to defeat the bots. A bot wouldn't know what to type in the answer box.

[daniellei4510]

I doubt that it matters to the bot what you type, so long as you type something to prove you're human.

[Worker404]

What happens to you also happens to me. I think they want to make sure that you are not a bot or a spammer because you publish in large quantities.

I don't know the benefit of that extra captcha. Any bot can pass it. I think they can't accept that some people are enthusiastic and have the determination and way to produce massively.

[Jill_C]

I think Adobe has too many bad experiences with mass contributors. They can track the statistics of reject vs. acceptance on large batches / large volume contributors. Contributors with high acceptance rates cost them too much to moderate. With 77.6 million AI assets now in the database, representing ~18% of the total, perhaps they want to slow down the influx and encourage Contributors to focus on quakity rather than quantity.

[daniellei4510]

"and have the determination and way to produce massively."

And that's often why they end up here asking why their accounts were deactivated. 🙂

[Worker404]

What do you mean by that?

Isn't it accepted for a group of people to submit in one account or no? As i saw a person with more than 1 million downloads and saying that they are company group.

[daniellei4510]

People have lost their accounts in the past for uploading hundreds of AI generated images per day, without any thought to editing those images. That's probably why the capchas are appearing now, which suggest that some individuals are doing so again. And yes, I believe there are company groups that have made arrangements with Adobe to have multiple people uploading to the same account. I think. I'm not 100% certain, but perhaps another contributor can verify this or dispute it.

[Worker404]

I upload about 25  photo per day

My pictures are simple and abstract so there are not many mistakes and i delete photos who has a big mistakes

Do you think this is a good rate per day?

[daniellei4510]

It's reasonable. I had a lot of AI images already created when I first signed up for Adobe Stock, so that's close to what I used to submit. Now, I submit around 6 to 8 per day. Most of my images are photorealistic, and to maintain the realism requires a lot of editing. 

[Worker404]

I wonder how these people post hundreds of photos every day 

I heard a man say that he posts 100 photos in one time...Man, if he only wrote five keywords for each image, he wouldn't done of all of this🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Jill_C]

Those mass-submitters generate a bunch of similars, don't do any editing and apply the same title and keywords to most of them. Something like "green grass" or "abstract background". Buyers will never find those images.

[Worker404]

The more you work harder the more you get rewarded 

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@daniellei4510 wrote:

Most of my images are photorealistic, and to maintain the realism requires a lot of editing. 

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[Abambo]

I upload about 25  photo per day

By @Worker404

That's probably on the high-end of what you can do in a day.

I know of a banned account who had 60,000 assets of generative AI. Automatic generation and submission is not a great idea. 😉

[Abambo]

What do you mean by that?

Isn't it accepted for a group of people to submit in one account or no? As i saw a person with more than 1 million downloads and saying that they are company group.

By @Worker404

Company accounts are allowed, but there are many complaints of people saying that their account got blocked because of a minor error of one of his employees. The Germans have a proverb: "Mitgegangen, mitgehangen!"

[Abambo]

Getting a good image description for free is very interesting for Adobe.

It may well be that the first captcha now gets resolved by bots.

[Worker404]

If that, why didn't it appear to normal people with small amount of images per day? They may thinking that we are bots because of the amount of images per day uploaded :).

The first captcha can be solved easily for bot, By adding the limited cat images to the bot programmatically, the bot will be able to solve the captcha ,The second is also easy for bots to solve. Today’s creative AI bots can easily solve it and write a creative description.Any programmer can add a bot API from the language models Ai to his bot and thus it will skip the second captcha.

I came up with a somewhat strange idea that perhaps Adobe would train a new artificial intelligence model to help choose titles and keywords, as Shutterstock is better than Adobe in this regard. 

[Abambo]

Today’s creative AI bots can easily solve it and write a creative description.Any programmer can add a bot API from the language models Ai to his bot and thus it will skip the second captcha.

By @Worker404

But you need time to adapt your bot. For the first 50,000 assets, you don't even see that you failed the second test, and you get banned.