#using ai product descriptions on ebay doesn't even save ebay any money

[clouds-of-wings]

I really recommend familiarizing yourself with the way the eBay AI talks in your language if you buy there a lot. It's very useful if you can tell if a product description is generated by a bot because it often makes things up or describes things in exaggeratedly positive terms. Also a bot description is based only on the title and the product info that is already visible above the actual description (and what it thinks it can infer from these), so you know right away the description won't offer any new information and you don't have to read it. I recognize the bot by its writing style now and it helps.

You can familiarize yourself by pretending you want to sell something, writing a fake title and so on, and then just playing around with the AI.

#ebay #i really can't wait for this hype to be over #and we can start thinking rationally about what ai can actually be used for #instead of just throwing ai at everything in panic #bc a lot of people are so desperatedly afraid of missing out on a trend #that they will ruin their product in order to not seem old-fashioned #without actually understanding what they're doing #using ai product descriptions on ebay doesn't even save ebay any money #it does not communicate any additional info #and it makes product descriptions less accurate and less informative #also you can usually infer stuff about the seller from how they write their descriptions #and that goes away if they use ai #it's a clear net negative