Adobe has made many mistakes in their history and this one was surprising. I would have thought that a company of their size and standing would divide images into two categories - original (ie by a human) and AI generated. Have two separate teams and let the AI submissions wait in line in their gazillions.
This is why I think PoH is going to be the next big thing. People value things created by people (at least many of the people I know do) and eventually the AI images will get old. I personally think it may take some time, but look at the NFT craze - it died down after a couple years to a low simmer. Just keep being original, it counts.
I deeply hope you're right, but how do we distinguish? AI is now in its kindergartens stage and it is already too hard to tell if something has been AI-generated. In a few years it could be impossible to tell.
Many people are discussing the same matter and I am sure the new AI content doesn't bring Adobe new millions of revenue so they afford to take a cut of that and hire a new team of QAs. It is obvious they are using the same quality review team to filter/accept the two types of content. Also obvious, they can't keep up with the volume as there are already visuals in the "non-AI" section that are obviously generated by AI. It's gonna be a huge mess soon...
That's exactly the problem we will all be facing soon. I really don't see good things coming from AI in that regard. Did you hear about people receiving AI generated ransom calls? Scary stuff. And then worldcoin orbs are scanning people's eyes - gosh it really is starting to sound like a scene out of a 1970s science fiction movie with a dystopian end.
Adobe needs to make an adjustment accordingly, but whether they will or not - time will tell. I do think it's really unfair on people that take and edit their own pictures to be shoved in the same bag with the AI generated images.
Probably it's worse than what we know ;)
Actually, my partner received a call by "Nataly" who asked her some strange questions about a product and where she lives. Then we saw on the news that call has been received by thousands of compatriots. We are still able to distinguish AI-generated noise but as AI trains much faster than us, people, soon we won't be able to, I am afraid.