Sellers - Stop using 'AI' nonsense for descriptions, you are losing sales....

[leon9503]

It might seem an easy option but I won't buy from sellers who use the lazy option for descriptions, it's sometimes completely wrong or just nonsense and does not tell me want I want to know to make a buying descision so I don't.

I want real descriptions of the item not made up ones by a machine!

I recently looked at some Lens filters and I was informed they were circular, obviously the pics weren't a clue....LOL. What I want to know is the condition of the glass, nothing else not that they are a great item to have in my kit....Yawn.

Technology is even making websites dumb.

[heritag-97]

NO, NO,NO.... only the seller can describe the condition and history of a used item!

[leon9503]

No idea who's marked this as having a 'Solution' it certainly wasn't me!

[the_book_seekers]

If AI is picking through the details of the listing and the seller uses ebay's catalogue information, then this may be where the problem lies. In so many cases ebay's book catalogues have mistakes and ebay's AI can only work with the quality of information supplied.

I'd be more impressed with AI if it could analyse the information it's given and point out the errors.

[department28]

'No idea who's marked this as having a 'Solution' it certainly wasn't me!'

I expect AI decided to select the solution on your behalf... 'to save you time and elevate your forum experience...' 🤖

[ett1954]

"In so many cases ebay's book catalogues have mistakes" - this is correct however I don't think it was the problem here.  I believe AI is using the title as the main instigator for its description.  As most booksellers will know the title often has no relevance to the subject matter.  In this particular instance the publisher does a series on automobiles, as well as locomotives, armoured vehicles, aircraft etc.  It appears to have been a lottery and picked the wrong one.

The most ridiculous example I came across when checking prices from competitors was the book 'Two Eggs on my Plate'; a biography of a secret agent dropped behind lines during WW2.  The title refers to the hearty last meal given before parachuting into occupied territory (eggs were strictly rationed).  eBay's Artificial Idiot described the book as indispensable for anyone rearing chickens. 😂  An INAD waiting to happen.  This would suggest that the AI simply takes a key word or phrase from the title and generates a description relative to the word or phrase fluffed out with 1980's double glazing sales banter.

[leon9503]

It's just been 'Unsolutioned' by a human....😉 

[hotrodasaurus]

I realise this is an old post, but reading your final paragraph, by the time you have altered the AI description of the differences between what you think is incorrect and what is more realistic you may as well have written your own details in the first place.
Luckily there is an 'Undo' option and so far I have never thought the AI description is accurate enough to describe my items.