New! Turn Your Photos into Listings...

[department28]

This mind-boggling new feature has just started popping up in Seller Hub...

...apparently it is already in use on eBay.com, but wondered if anyone here has tried it yet?

[parsley2003]

No thanks will involve AI and that is always a disaster 

[wintersdawn1]

That sounds scary!  Probably take twice as long putting it all right 🤣

[department28]

Let's hope it won't become mandatory... 

[edwardian-dreams]

How about eBay concentrate on turning your listings into sales or say, stop chopping and changing things every five minutes , they’re addicted to chaos

ill give this new fanged pile of rubbish a miss  

[lucy_farmer]

'.....but wondered if anyone here has tried it yet?'

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Not sure anybody around here is going to be that daft.........

[eastern_standard_time]

What could possibly go wrong? 🤣

[department28]

Indeed! 😄

I really can't see the point of adding in another AI listing tool. Isn't the current one useless enough?!

You would have to put in a title & some specifics anyway - AI can't create a 'detailed' draft just by 'looking' at the photos alone...

Maybe some business sellers find AI useful for brand new, multiple items, but for anyone selling second-hand, or one-off items, it is next to useless - and just encourages 'lazy' listing.

It is a pity eBay is going down this road, instead of doing more to encourage creativity & individuality. Interesting & varied items, uniquely described by real people, is one of the best things about shopping on eBay, imo. 

Unfortunately, many online retailers are doing the same thing, resulting in exactly the same sort of gormless generic descriptions... 'enhance, experience, elevate, touch of elegance'... 🙄

[rainbowtrax]

As an experiment, I just tried it out. As expected, it doesn't work - pretty much like every other pointless feature that is introduced on this site. It actually makes the AI description feature look good!

So I tested it by trying to create a listing that I already have active from the photos I have on the listing - just to help make it easy for it by making sure that it had a current listing for an identical item to draw its info from.

First off, it doesn't generate a title at all. So I entered the exact title of my identical listing, just to try and help it a bit more. It did manage to get the right category.

It then attempted to fill in the multitude of item specifics. There were 16 of them. It got two right, although one of those was incomplete. The remaining 14 it got wrong or left them completely blank. Three of the ones it didn't fill in were compulsory ones.

Then onto the description. It didn't even attempt to write one, just left it blank.

So I'm sure that ebay will be hailing this new feature as a rip-roaring success as it's well down to their usual standard.

[cambrian-coast-collectables]

No time saving, it just took the 7 photos I uploaded, and the AI, Bot, whatever, deduced it was a white mug, still had to do everything else.  It suggests you just upload the photos and "it" would do the rest.   Not in my case.

[department28]

Thank you for taking the time to try this out!  Glad you made it back safely... you might have found yourself caught up in some sort of AI loop, doomed to communicate only in AI language for all eternity...😄

I'm sure we would all be able to provide eBay with a shortlist of things we would like to see added/removed from the listing page, instead of this AI stuff, which no-one really wants or needs.