@fern*wood wrote:
Every item is a must have.
Don't forget the hyphen! 😁 AI thinks everything is a "must-have," and you could probably make a drinking game out of it, except that you'd be under the table by the fifth AI description.
It's getting really easy to spot an AI description. In addition to the odd fixation with "must-have" as a must-have phrase in every listing (Har!), they seem to always be two paragraphs, saying much the same thing (such as it is) in two different ways, neither one of which actually adds anything.
Judging from what we've seen in countless bad examples in the Selling group (not picking on any seller in particular), it looks like AI attempts to draw from the seller's Item Specifics and put those details into complete sentences, with mixed results. If the seller hasn't bothered to add any Item Specifics, then the AI desperately tries to wing it, making up some text from general usage of whatever terms it can find in the listing title, with even worse results.
At a glance, it's easy to see the Garbage-In-Garbage-Out model of AI descriptions at work, but beyond that, AI's biggest problem in usage here is that it can only end up saying mostly the same thing in everyone's listing. If given similar low-detail input from one listing to the next, it can only generate the same low-detail output as a result, and there are only so many different phrases available that don't have the words "must-have" in them.
The more AI is applied to listings by lazy sellers, the more these descriptions are going to end up the same, not necessarily a race to the bottom, but a race to the vapid indistinguishable middle.
