https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/07/ebay-rolls-out-a-tool-that-generates-product-listings-from-photos/
eBay is rolling out a new AI tool for marketplace sellers that can generate a product listing from a single photo.
Available in the eBay app for iOS to start, with the Android app to follow in the coming weeks, the tool can automatically write a title and description based on a photo, as well as information including a product release date, and suggest a category, subcategory, list price and shipping cost.
The tool builds on eBay’s other efforts to inject AI into the selling process, including AI-generated product catalog descriptions and a background removal tool for listing photos.
Whatever can go wrong. How does the AI know the condition of the item.
My wife is part of the Ebay Thrifting Group since she sold on their long ago. The reactions are mostly negative there with posts like:
"I used it to sell my camera, the AI made it it included a lens kit"
"The AI wrote three paragraphs about my item including a lot of errors and wrong information. The time it took to clean it up and correct it would have been better spend just writing the description"
"I wanted to sell a Gorilla stuffy, the AI generated the title 'Black people plushie'"
Beware, soon you'll have anyone with a phone snapping pictures and fire and forget it to Ebay.
It's also coming to Amazon marketplace and Shopify. So don't trust anything you read there.
Reviews are already worthless and highly suspect. What's next.
