01-01-2025 8:56 PM
Happy New Year!
Apple ai or Artificial Intelligence has just become available with the latest update to the Sequoia operating system . I am finding it quite interesting although whether it will produce the upswing in sales I hunger for is unknown.
The Writing Tools which are evoked when you Select a text and two-finger click the trackpad offer three modes: Friendly, Professional and Concise. Now this is what I really like: after I have typed in my description, I can select and view all three versions of it. Then I can make alterations as I see fit. I can select a single sentence to work on, or a paragraph or the whole description and all three modes can be combined in one listing description. As an exercise, I plan to write a description and make it Professional, save it and make it Concise and then make it Friendly. The Friendly mode can be alien to me: I don't call people "folks" but it is easy to pick up and edit such details. What are your thoughts?
This is the Professional version of the above:-
Hello,
The latest update to the Sequoia operating system has introduced Apple AI, or Artificial Intelligence. While its impact on sales remains uncertain, I find it intriguing.
The Writing Tools, activated by selecting text and two-finger clicking the trackpad, offer three modes: Friendly, Professional, and Concise. This feature is particularly useful, allowing me to view and edit all three versions of my description after typing it. I can select a single sentence, paragraph, or entire description and apply modifications across all modes. Notably, all three modes can be combined in a single listing description.
As an exercise, I intend to compose a description, refine it to Professional, save it, and then revise it to Concise. Finally, I will transform it to Friendly. While the Friendly mode may seem unfamiliar, it is relatively easy to modify such details.
I would appreciate your insights on this new feature.
Now the Concise mode:
Happy New Year!
Apple’s AI, now available with the Sequoia operating system update, offers three writing modes: Friendly, Professional, and Concise. After typing a description, I can select and view all three versions, making alterations as needed. I can focus on a single sentence, paragraph, or entire description, and combine modes in one listing. I plan to write a description, save it as Professional, then make it Concise and Friendly. The Friendly mode may be unfamiliar, but it’s easy to edit such details. What are your thoughts?
Here below is the Friendly version which, as it happens, is the most unsatisfactory one: it puts words in my mouth and makes wrong deductions and introduces confusion.
Happy New Year!
Guess what? Apple’s new AI feature is now available with the latest update to the Sequoia operating system. I’m curious about it, but I’m not sure if it’ll boost sales like I’m hoping.
By the way, there’s a new writing tool in the Sequoia operating system. When you select a text and tap the trackpad with two fingers, you’ll get three modes: Friendly, Professional, and Concise. This is what I really like: after I write my description, I can see all three versions of it at once. I can make changes as I go. I can even pick a single sentence, a paragraph, or the whole description and work on it in any of the modes. It’s like having a writing assistant!
I’m planning to try it out. I’ll write a description, make it Professional, save it, and then make it Concise and Friendly. I’m not sure what the Friendly mode is all about, but I’m sure I can figure it out. What do you think?
02-01-2025 10:39 AM
My thoughts are, unfortunately, that it reads like AI. For some people, that might be a bonus, but for me, it is very off-putting.
It's hard to put my finger on WHY the first two versions are clearly AI, but the third one is obviously gushing, and reads like the worst sort of advertisement for the worst sort of product. ("Impress the girls with your new Bullworker muscles in only 5 minutes." "How I found a job that pays $230000 dollars per day for just ten minutes' work!")
I see a couple of worrying tendencies in it. For example, you have typed "Now this is what I really like", and the AI has altered that to: "This feature is particularly useful". Not the same thing at all.
I do find this sort of thing troublesome - just seeing AI at the head of search engine results, giving out duff legal, "factual" or medical information that could have real-life consequences for people.
02-01-2025 11:20 AM
when ai writes descriptions we dont proof read and correct, it may start being useful
06-01-2025 11:20 PM
The first paragraph was my own work and it follows with three versions of it from Apple AI. The AI contains phraseology I would not use, it doesn't sound like me although my own writing might be "fusty" and hardly anyone buys my items.
06-01-2025 11:22 PM
Even genius novelists and poets need proof reading and correcting.
07-01-2025 10:01 AM
More examples reported today of Apple AI summarising facts into nonsense:
09-01-2025 2:30 PM
In my experience buyers never read the description so I wouldn't waste time getting AI to re-write what you've written. No-one's going to read it anyway.😂
09-01-2025 2:39 PM
I would NOT use A.I. anything... particularly for listing descriptions - it can open a a whole world of " items not as described" cases.
This and all the other changes, look as if eBay want to make the platform fully " automated" ...
A.I. is actually " trained" by us ... and people relying on it for their own items or anything else really should think again.
10-01-2025 9:04 PM
I tend to agree but also think that maybe eBay knows which descriptions work best at selling items.