eBay AI Summaries In Facebook Marketplace Partner Listings Could Increase INAD Claims

Posted 1 year ago·Last reply 1 year ago

53 comments

toomuchstuffagain35

·1 year ago

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They did the same sort of thing when ebay was trying to push everyone into using the 'product pages.

At one point I had a listing for ONE doll showing on the product page (along with others) under a totally different title to mine claiming it was a 'set of 2'.

I also came across product pages with seller listings for items in a pack of 6 under the title for a pack of 12.

jasoheat_0

·1 year ago

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i opted out , i can do market place all on my own and do very well with it , as i do .

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@jasoheat_0 wrote:
i opted out , i can do market place all on my own and do very well with it , as i do .

@jasoheat_0 did you get confirmation from eBay that your opt out from having your listings shown on Facebook Marketplace was successful?

If so, any pointers you can share for @pls-consignments and others who aren't having any luck opting out?

revenue-collector

·1 year ago

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So what is the ACTUAL channel to opt out? The links thus far just dump you on a page in the help section and you have to try and navigate the chatbot. I typed in "opt out of facebook crossposting" and just got the error message "Sorry, I didn't quite get that. Please try asking again in a different way."

What are the keywords/buzzwords to use in order to get past their AI to opt out of their AI????

eBay's help system is complete garbage.

toomuchstuffagain35

·1 year ago

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You can't. We've been moved into the Hotel California.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

mrv71

·1 year ago

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I had to contact customer service by chat, they told me it can take up to 30 days!

Their robot from the link on the website is completely useless, you need to speak to a human.

iabootman

·1 year ago

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I NEVER Buy anything from seller that use AI descriptions! That is SOOOOOOOO LAZY and AI descriptions tell you ABSOLUTLY NOTHING! Here's EVERY AI description ever written. "This item is the Greatest - it's a must have - you'll be the talk of the town"

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@iabootman wrote:
I NEVER Buy anything from seller that use AI descriptions! That is SOOOOOOOO LAZY and AI descriptions tell you ABSOLUTLY NOTHING! Here's EVERY AI description ever written. "This item is the Greatest - it's a must have - you'll be the talk of the town"

@iabootman and that is just one of the many problems with this situation.

These sellers are not intentionally choosing to display AI created description summaries and in fact in many cases may not even be aware that eBay is doing this - which means they also may not even be aware if they are losing potential purchases from buyers like you who are turned off by AI descriptions.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Description-highlights-summarized-with-ebay-ai-Can-I-opt-out/m-p/35060466/highlight/true#M2557766

Just an update for @a_c_green and anyone who was following this thread - @mamacassidy has provided screenshots showing that eBay is also using explicitly labeled eBay.AI description summaries for some items within the eBay app experience as well.

my-cottage-books-and-antiques

·1 year ago

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@valueaddedresource AI is the shiny new thing, but this is just so wrong.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
@valueaddedresource AI is the shiny new thing, but this is just so wrong.

@my-cottage-books-and-antiques absolutely agree that doing this as an undisclosed test with no opt out is just wrong on so many levels.

I understand AI is the shiny new thing and eBay feels the same pressure other companies are under from their investors to shove it into everything but - have some respect for your seller customers, make an announcement about it, allow those who are interested in being guinea pigs to voluntarily sign up and do not under any circumstances automatically opt sellers in with no warning, no way to even know which listings it applies to/when, and no way to opt out.

I can see this kind of behavior coming back to bite eBay big time and honestly I hope it does - German data privacy regulators are already questioning the section about AI training on user data in the recent privacy policy update and say they've received a lot of complaints already, so hopefully that might give eBay some incentive to rethink what they are doing and actually live up to those "responsible AI principals" they keep talking about.

a_c_green

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource wrote:
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
@valueaddedresource AI is the shiny new thing, but this is just so wrong.
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques absolutely agree that doing this as an undisclosed test with no opt out is just wrong on so many levels.

I understand AI is the shiny new thing and eBay feels the same pressure other companies are under from their investors to shove it into everything but - have some respect for your seller customers, make an announcement about it, allow those who are interested in being guinea pigs to voluntarily sign up and do not under any circumstances automatically opt sellers in with no warning, no way to even know which listings it applies to/when, and no way to opt out.

Unfortunately this has been Standard Operating Procedure with eBay for, what, decades now: they simply do not communicate, seemingly as a matter of policy -- not even with each other.

Whenever something significant is rolled out, it may get a press-release posting from a group alias that never answers follow-up questions. CS phone reps never have more information, and too often have to have the new development explained to them by the caller.

As I've said on many occasions before, there is never anyone who stands up and says, "This is my idea and this is why I think it's a good thing." No one wants to take responsibility for their changes and no one wants to talk about them. The community group representatives here will always relay questions to the assorted "teams" within the company, but they are roundly ignored and actual answers (or dialogue) never appear.

In particular, technical questions or reports needing bug fixes tend to languish with no actual response. (Browse the Technical Issues group and see how many threads actually show the little eBay logo denoting a response from the company.) As someone with decades of Tech Support experience, it still amazes me that a company this dysfunctional can limp along as it does. It could be so much better.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/interesting-ebay-app-hides-seller-description-but-shows-AI/td-p/33937449/highlight/true

@a_c_green that sounds a lot like this discussion from 2023 about the way that eBay sometimes hides descriptions in the app behind a link and sometimes not - in fact in that discussion it was even initially thought that eBay was favoring listings using the AI description generator.

The final "answer" we came to back then was that it was influenced by the use of custom html and that sellers could increase the chances of not having their description hidden by just using plain text.

If that's what you're talking about, I don't believe those are eBay.AI generated summaries but I could be wrong.

a_c_green

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource wrote:
The final "answer" we came to back then was that it was influenced by the use of custom html and that sellers could increase the chances of not having their description hidden by just using plain text.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/interesting-ebay-app-hides-seller-description-but-shows-AI/td-p/33937449/highlight/true

If that's what you're talking about, I don't believe those are eBay.AI generated summaries but I could be wrong.

It's possible that they are not AI-generated, as some of the phrases lifted out for that "summary" are stuck together into incomplete sentences, with no attempt at fixing the grammar, which is (ironically) one way that AI-generated text is so easy to identify: it's grammatically perfect.

I have to wonder, then, about what logic is being used to pull this sentence vs. that sentence out of a much larger paragraph. I don't use custom HTML at all; the most I'll do are bulleted lists.

roccotacodad54

·1 year ago

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If it's the same AI they use now on Ebay for listings sometimes.

Duck and be ready for "Item Not As Described" claims.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@roccotacodad54 wrote:
If it's the same AI they use now on Ebay for listings sometimes.
Duck and be ready for "Item Not As Described" claims.

@roccotacodad54 have you seen non-seller generated AI summaries like this on eBay as well? I'd definitely be interested in screenshots or more details if so!

Or do you just mean the AI description option that sellers can choose to use when creating a listing?

a_c_green

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource wrote:
@roccotacodad54 have you seen non-seller generated AI summaries like this on eBay as well? I'd definitely be interested in screenshots or more details if so!

Or do you just mean the AI description option that sellers can choose to use when creating a listing?

Not speaking for @roccotacodad54 here, but in my case, it's the former. When in the mobile app, where eBay stuffs your full description into an off-page link, they occasionally concoct a summary description ("Item description from the seller"), maybe a paragraph or so, and use that on the main listing screen. If looking at my own listings there, I would see that "summary" put together from seemingly random phrases which the algorithm thought were relevant, but did not always make sense, and occasionally seemed to go completely wrong, like the famous "Thou shalt commit adultery" commandment typo.

One note I should add here: in scrolling through a bunch of my own listings, I could only get that summary description to appear in one listing of mine, the first one I chose, and all the others after that (found via clicking on the Seller's Other Items link) would not come up with a summary at all; the entire description was hidden behind a "See full description" link.

It appears that when you pull up a fresh list of search results, the algorithm will attempt to do a summary of the description on the first listing you select, but not on any of the subsequent ones. It looks like some kind of an internal flag is being set to indicate that a summary description was created, but that flag does not get reset (i.e. cleared) unless the entire current list of results is replaced by a fresh search. (Again, this is all concerning the mobile app, not the desktop view.)

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@a_c_green - interesting, thanks! Do they explicitly label it as an eBay.AI summary like they do in the Facebook listings?

a_c_green

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource wrote:
@a_c_green - interesting, thanks! Do they explicitly label it as an eBay.AI summary like they do in the Facebook listings?

Ummm... (pause while I try to remember where I put my phone down)...

No, they do not. It's either there or it isn't there.

I did some more random searches and viewing, and now I cannot see any clear pattern about when the summary does or does not appear. I did notice that when the main description was entirely AI-generated glop, then the full text could also be used as the "summary" description as well, making for a rather long summary. (I wonder if there are any hidden embedded HTML tags that identify the text as AI-generated.)

roccotacodad54

·1 year ago

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The ones on listings used by some sellers.

pls-consignments

·1 year ago

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I for one, decided to opt out of this arranged marriage for this very concern. Arranged marriages will always require time to work out conflicts, especially when AI is the 3-fold cord. This is way too early and risky for my business, especially now.

Side note.... when I contacted CS to opt out, the rep had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had to send her eBay's own announcement links. Once received, she immediately referred me to a supervisor, who said the "opt out" email will be sent to me within 72-hrs. Can't wait to see it. ðŸ˜¶

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@pls-consignments wrote:
I for one, decided to opt out of this arranged marriage for this very concern. Arranged marriages will always require time to work out conflicts, especially when AI is the 3-fold cord. This is way too early and risky for my business, especially now.

Side note.... when I contacted CS to opt out, the rep had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had to send her eBay's own announcement links. Once received, she immediately referred me to a supervisor, who said the "opt out" email will be sent to me within 72-hrs. Can't wait to see it. ðŸ˜¶

@pls-consignments I've heard others say they've had the same difficulty in opting out. Please do let us know if/when you get that confirmation.

ekmadonna

·1 year ago

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And are saying up thread a bit that all my listings are being cross posted to FB? I know nothing about this Facebook stuff!

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/news/2025-april/facebook-marketplace

@ekmadonna wrote:
And are saying up thread a bit that all my listings are being cross posted to FB? I know nothing about this Facebook stuff!

@ekmadonna if you haven't opted out, than all of your listings could potentially be cross posted to FB, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are being cross posted, if that makes sense.

eBay has said there is nothing sellers need to do for their listings to be eligible and that they will simply send listings from a variety of categories to Facebook based on user interest, shopping trends, and listing quality.

More info here:

And yes, if you do not want the possibility that some of your listings may be shown on Facebook, you'll need to contact eBay to request to opt out.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/ebay-listings-facebook-marketplace?id=5559

ekmadonna

·1 year ago

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thank you for clarifying that for me!

pls-consignments

·1 year ago

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@valueaddedresource wrote:
@pls-consignments wrote:
I for one, decided to opt out of this arranged marriage for this very concern. Arranged marriages will always require time to work out conflicts, especially when AI is the 3-fold cord. This is way too early and risky for my business, especially now.

Side note.... when I contacted CS to opt out, the rep had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had to send her eBay's own announcement links. Once received, she immediately referred me to a supervisor, who said the "opt out" email will be sent to me within 72-hrs. Can't wait to see it. ðŸ˜¶
@pls-consignments I've heard others say they've had the same difficulty in opting out. Please do let us know if/when you get that confirmation.

UPDATE

It's now been two full weeks and, as expected, NO OPT OUT EMAIL.!

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@pls-consignments wrote:
@valueaddedresource wrote:
@pls-consignments wrote:
I for one, decided to opt out of this arranged marriage for this very concern. Arranged marriages will always require time to work out conflicts, especially when AI is the 3-fold cord. This is way too early and risky for my business, especially now.

Side note.... when I contacted CS to opt out, the rep had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had to send her eBay's own announcement links. Once received, she immediately referred me to a supervisor, who said the "opt out" email will be sent to me within 72-hrs. Can't wait to see it. ðŸ˜¶
@pls-consignments I've heard others say they've had the same difficulty in opting out. Please do let us know if/when you get that confirmation.
UPDATE
It's now been two full weeks and, as expected, NO OPT OUT EMAIL.!

@pls-consignments that's disappointing but not surprising. ðŸ™

@devon@ebay @kyle@ebay @elizabeth@ebay - any help you can provide here? Sellers who are trying to opt out of the Facebook Marketplace partnership integration seem to be getting nowhere with support.

devon@ebay

Admin1 year ago

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@valueaddedresource wrote:

@pls-consignments wrote:

@valueaddedresource wrote:

@pls-consignments wrote:

I for one, decided to opt out of this arranged marriage for this very concern. Arranged marriages will always require time to work out conflicts, especially when AI is the 3-fold cord. This is way too early and risky for my business, especially now.

Side note.... when I contacted CS to opt out, the rep had no idea what I was talking about. I literally had to send her eBay's own announcement links. Once received, she immediately referred me to a supervisor, who said the "opt out" email will be sent to me within 72-hrs. Can't wait to see it. ðŸ˜¶

@pls-consignments I've heard others say they've had the same difficulty in opting out. Please do let us know if/when you get that confirmation.

UPDATE

It's now been two full weeks and, as expected, NO OPT OUT EMAIL.!

@pls-consignments that's disappointing but not surprising. ðŸ™

@devon@ebay @kyle@ebay @elizabeth@ebay - any help you can provide here? Sellers who are trying to opt out of the Facebook Marketplace partnership integration seem to be getting nowhere with support.

Hey @valueaddedresource! We will report this with the Product team. In the mean time we encourage sellers to work with the customer support team in order to opt out and have an individual ticket open on their account if there experiencing issues with the opt out process.

ekmadonna

·1 year ago

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You actually have to CALL Ebay to opt out of this?

uniwarehousewares

·1 year ago

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i think ebay is loosing customers and sellers due to their poor policies and as result instead of focusing on ebay website now they jumping over on facebook. i guess facebook and ebay both will be like nokia one day due to poor policies.

redlinear

·1 year ago

I'd say your seller has some racing decal wording in the item specifics for the fishing lure listing

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@redlinear wrote:
I'd say your seller has some racing decal wording in the item specifics for the fishing lure listing

@redlinear and you would be 100% wrong.

Full item specifics from the actual listing:

Also just to save time, this item is listed in Sporting Goods> Fishing > Fishing Equipment> Tackle Boxes & Bags so there is nothing confusing or wrong about the category either.

As previously stated, the seller does have other items in their store which are advertised as a "grab bag" of stickers/decals, so the most likely explanation is that the AI has picked up details from other listings, spun them into its own words and added them incorrectly to this item description.

Again, to be clear, there is absolutely nothing in the seller provided info for this specific listing which states anything what so ever about racing decals.

redlinear

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource wrote:
@redlinear wrote:
I'd say your seller has some racing decal wording in the item specifics for the fishing lure listing
@redlinear and you would be 100% wrong.

Full item specifics from the actual listing:

Also just to save time, this item is listed in Sporting Goods> Fishing > Fishing Equipment> Tackle Boxes & Bags so there is nothing confusing or wrong about the category either.

As previously stated, the seller does have other items in their store which are advertised as a "grab bag" of stickers/decals, so the most likely explanation is that the AI has picked up details from other listings, spun them into its own words and added them incorrectly to this item description.

Again, to be clear, there is absolutely nothing in the seller provided info for this specific listing which states anything what so ever about racing decals.

100% isn't too bad for me ðŸ˜
Are ya sure it wasn't revised?
I mean, I only checked ONE other item, a fishing reel. And it's Department in item specifics is Unisex Adult.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@redlinear wrote:
100% isn't too bad for me ðŸ˜
Are ya sure it wasn't revised?
I mean, I only checked ONE other item, a fishing reel. And it's Department in item specifics is Unisex Adult.

@redlinear I really don't understand why you are so insistent on trying to find a way to blame the seller for something that is very clearly and obviously an eBay created issue.

But just to humor you - the revision history on this particular listing shows the only recent revisions were to the shipping terms, the price and/or to start or end a sale promotion on the item.

There are no notations in the revision history of any changes to the item specifics

The last time it shows a revision to the description was Dec 17, 2024 which was a month before the eBay Facebook partnership was even announced and it took several months more for eBay to actually start cross-posting items so again, from all available info there is and has been nothing in the seller provided details for this listing saying anything about racing decals during any time in which eBay would have been using their AI to summarize the description when cross-posting it to Facebook.

Now, since you say you looked at another one of their listings, you obviously have figured out who the seller is and can find this listing as well to review all of this so...please stop trying to blame the seller when you can clearly see for yourself exactly what is happening here.

redlinear

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource
It's okay. I just saw where the other listing was a little sloppy. Probably just coincidence though.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@redlinear wrote:
@valueaddedresource
It's okay. I just saw where the other listing was a little sloppy. Probably just coincidence though.

@redlinear whether some of a seller's listings are sloppy or not isn't really relevant to this discussion - even if it was sloppy (which there is no indication this one was), I would expect eBay to accurately and correctly convey the seller provided info when cross-posting to Facebook, not add their own AI slop to the mix to make it even worse.

Bottom line - eBay shouldn't be adding *anything* to the description that isn't actually present in the seller provided info on the listing, period.

redlinear

·1 year ago

@valueaddedresource wrote:
@redlinear wrote:
@valueaddedresource
It's okay. I just saw where the other listing was a little sloppy. Probably just coincidence though.
@redlinear whether some of a seller's listings are sloppy or not isn't really relevant to this discussion - even if it was sloppy (which there is no indication this one was), I would expect eBay to accurately and correctly convey the seller provided info when cross-posting to Facebook, not add their own AI slop to the mix to make it even worse.

Bottom line - eBay shouldn't be adding *anything* to the description that isn't actually present in the seller provided info on the listing, period.

Racing Decals and Tackle Boxes
Now there's a little explored niche

wastingtime101

·1 year ago

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Yeah, this isn't on the seller or how they set up their listing. Looks like something eBay needs to work out. If I were a betting man I'd say eBay has already seen this discussion and someone has flagged this to be researched.

Also - how is listing a fishing rod or reel for "unisex adults" sloppy? I mean it's not necessary to fill out that specific since it's generally assumed the product is for adults - that field is more appropriately used when it's a kid-sized fishing rod / reel so people looking for kid-sized product can filter and quickly find what they're looking for - but there's nothing incorrect or sloppy about indicating the item is for adults. Not that it's in any way related to the topic at hand. Ignore my side commentary and proceed with your Facebook / AI discussion. ðŸ˜›

For what it's worth, I looked at the listing on eBay web, mobile web, & app and none of those three platforms had the AI summary so this is just a Facebook Marketplace (FBM) thing. It's new, I'm sure they'll work out the kinks pretty quickly.

fbusoni

·1 year ago

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@valueaddedresource wrote:

Bottom line - eBay shouldn't be adding *anything* to the description that isn't actually present in the seller provided info on the listing, period.

Liz, my first association to what you wrote above ^ was to a gourmet chef adding a certain "secret ingredient" to a dish he might be preparing.

Leading the customer at the restaurant to observe that the dish had a certain "je ne sais quois" quality about it.

AI is "magikal" alright. ðŸ˜„

PS: I Googled "tackle box decals" and apparently there is quite a market out there for same.

chapeau-noir

·1 year ago

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@valueaddedresource wrote:
@redlinear wrote:
I'd say your seller has some racing decal wording in the item specifics for the fishing lure listing
@redlinear and you would be 100% wrong.

Full item specifics from the actual listing:

Also just to save time, this item is listed in Sporting Goods> Fishing > Fishing Equipment> Tackle Boxes & Bags so there is nothing confusing or wrong about the category either.

As previously stated, the seller does have other items in their store which are advertised as a "grab bag" of stickers/decals, so the most likely explanation is that the AI has picked up details from other listings, spun them into its own words and added them incorrectly to this item description.

Again, to be clear, there is absolutely nothing in the seller provided info for this specific listing which states anything what so ever about racing decals.

I suspect that this seller's listings were seen as a cohort, AI thus picking up these specifics from other listings. I'd be curious to see what other of their FBM listings say.

toysaver

·1 year ago

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EBay is shooting themselves in the foot by allowing any AI at all.

they mustt ass amny slleres r alleterate and can;t wrie a sentice

chevymontecarlo88

·1 year ago

@toysaver wrote:
EBay is shooting themselves in the foot by allowing any AI at all.

they mustt ass amny slleres r alleterate and can;t wrie a sentice

If used correctly, AI can help those who have difficulty like you posted. Especially the kids graduating from Baltimore public schools who suffer from the lack of education. I would not say that is particularly funny. YMMV

Forcing AI on to others without the ability to edit/delete is a problem if AI incorrectly describes something in a listing.

chevymontecarlo88

·1 year ago

Maybe i am not understanding how AI descriptions work. Is it not the seller's responsibility to make sure their listing is correct if they choose to use AI to describe their own listing? If you use a shipping calculator incorrectly, aren't you still responsible for the correct shipping charges?

lacemaker3

·1 year ago

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@chevymontecarlo88 wrote:
Maybe i am not understanding how AI descriptions work. Is it not the seller's responsibility to make sure their listing is correct if they choose to use AI to describe their own listing? If you use a shipping calculator incorrectly, aren't you still responsible for the correct shipping charges?

@chevymontecarlo88,

As @valueaddedresource explained, the AI was added to the post on FB Marketplace. Maybe it was added by eBay, as Marketplace suggests, or maybe Marketplace did it. Either way, it was only shown there, not in the eBay listing.

The seller did not use an AI description.

chevymontecarlo88

·1 year ago

@lacemaker3 wrote:
@chevymontecarlo88 wrote:
Maybe i am not understanding how AI descriptions work. Is it not the seller's responsibility to make sure their listing is correct if they choose to use AI to describe their own listing? If you use a shipping calculator incorrectly, aren't you still responsible for the correct shipping charges?

@chevymontecarlo88,

As @valueaddedresource explained, the AI was added to the listing on FB Marketplace. Maybe it was added by eBay, or may Marketplace did it. Either way, it was only shown there, not in the eBay listing.

The seller did not use an AI description.

Wow. I did not realize eBay was describing items without a way to edit or view. Thanks for the clarification @lacemaker3 !

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Introducing-eBay-s-partnership-with-Facebook-Marketplace/ba-p/34868556

@chevymontecarlo88 wrote:
Maybe i am not understanding how AI descriptions work. Is it not the seller's responsibility to make sure their listing is correct if they choose to use AI to describe their own listing? If you use a shipping calculator incorrectly, aren't you still responsible for the correct shipping charges?

@chevymontecarlo88 the seller is not using AI in this instance, eBay is - without the seller's knowledge or explicit consent as far as I can tell.

Here's how the Facebook Marketplace partnership works:

eBay has auto-opted all listings in - unless you opt out, all of your active listings are eligible and may possibly be cross-posted by eBay to Facebook.

When eBay cross-posts a listing (again this is all done automatically by eBay, it is not something the seller is actively involved in), instead of showing the verbatim word for word description as entered by the seller on eBay, eBay is providing Facebook with a version of the description which has been summarized by eBay.AI (see my screenshots in the OP).

Sellers who haven't been paying attention to eBay announcements may not even be aware that their listings are being cross-posted to Facebook through this partnership.

And even those who are aware of it are likely not aware that eBay has taken it upon themselves to provide AI summarized descriptions instead of what the seller actually entered on the listing.

chevymontecarlo88

·1 year ago

You're on top of it as usual and thank you for the post/clarification.

knifeaholic

·1 year ago

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This is all good to know - thank you for posting a clear explanation of what eBay is doing.

In order for someone who first sees the eBay lising on FB, however, would they not be directed first to the actual listing on eBay, where the seller's original and correct description would be available for the buyer to read?

Of course in any case, fewer and fewer buyers bother to read the description at all. And I agree that eBay mucking with the description to cross post the lsting is just plain wrong.

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago

@knifeaholic that's a fair point. But as you say, fewer and fewer buyers even bother to read the description when they start on eBay - realistically how many are going to take the time to scroll down the page to look at that info if they believe they've already seen it on the Facebook listing?

bandrhome

·1 year ago

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AI must need glasses as thats not even close to a bag...

valueaddedresource

OP1 year ago