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motivated_Serenade5E23
motivated_Serenade5E23
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October 4, 2024
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Generative AI image variations uploaded by someone else

  • October 4, 2024
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Hey everyone,

 

I'm not sure how to proceed with this situation.

 

I am a generative AI contributor to Adobe Stock, started a few months ago.  I have a very small portfolio - only 120 photorealistic assets, aiming for quality and not for quantity. I carefully edit each image (sometimes for 1-2 hours) and my approval rates are very very high. I work as a graphic designer and I don't upload images that I wouldn't happily use in my own designs, quality-wise. Also, I do my research before generating anything, making sure the niche that I'm aiming for is not oversaturated already. 

 

Today I found out that someone took the image I generated and made a few minimal variations to it, then uploaded them to Adobe Stock. I know for sure that the variations were based on the image I generated, that person even used my prompt as an image title. 

 

I don't know if I'm in the position to get upset about someone using my prompt and making variations. I personally wouldn't do that to someone else though. 

 

What I am really upset about is that the person that uploaded those variations didn't edit them at all. There are very obvoius quality issues: the hair is messed up, the fingers, upside-down fruits are hanging from a tree, attached from the wrong end... For the record, it should have been a photorealistic image, but those are monstrosities 🙂 

 

The thing is, I did not upload my variation to Adobe Stock in the end, and for a reason: I thought it is too much of a hassle to edit all those AI issues (though compared to these variations the issues in mine were minimal). 

 

This situation is unpleasant on quite a few levels, and I don't know what to do about it. Should I even do anything about it, since it is AI? Were you in a similar situation before? Will love to hear your thoughts.

 

Cheers,

Marina

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Correct answer Contributor1

Thank you so much for your help!

Hope Adobe will follow up.


Hello @motivated_Serenade5E23, below is a web page with some guidance and an online form to submit an IP infringement notice: 

Report suspected misuse of your IP:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-report-suspected-misuse-of-your-intellectual-property.html

Online form to submit an IP infringement notice:
https://survey.adobe.com/jfe/form/SV_a3iwQO3jp990k2W

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daniellei4510
Community Expert
daniellei4510Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2024

Given that it's AI, I'm not sure if there's much you can do about it, other than knowing the asset probably won't sell due to its poor quality. Which begs the question, why was it accepted in the first place? For starters, though, could you provide the asset number? If the contributor's entire portfolio is suspect of copyright infringement, maybe action could be taken to get the account removed.

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motivated_Serenade5E23
motivated_Serenade5E23Author
Participant
October 4, 2024

Sure, there are the numbers:

 

#967973650 - hands are wrong, fruits are hanging upside-down, hair has problems too, .

#967973366 - all of the above.

#967973875 - hands, hair.

 

Not sure about the rest of the portfolio though, I just looked at these three assets since they resemble my work very closely. 

 

motivated_Serenade5E23
motivated_Serenade5E23Author
Participant
October 4, 2024

I'm not sure how Adobe handles situations like this, but maybe @Contributor1 can follow up.


Thank you so much for your help!

Hope Adobe will follow up.

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