What are your thoughts on the AI generated item descriptions?

[whiteparrot2003]

As a buyer (and sometimes seller) I find the AI generated descriptions either irritating or at least unhelpful.  Seems like most of those descriptions treat me like a buyer who can't think for themselves or don't really know what they want or like.  Almost no actual information in them.  As a seller, AI doesn't talk in my voice.  In the past, sellers have been encouraged to be direct and brief because apparently when seen on a cell phone, the listing can be truncated or buyers don't scroll down.  I haven't used the AI descriptions.  Just wondering if you have and what your opinions are on them; or if you don't use them and why.

[adamcartwright]

@whiteparrot2003 

To me, AI descriptions sound 4th graders took over the J. Peterman catalog.

[gurlcat]

Ha I am glad this thread is bumped because I just saw a hilarious one.  -About a mixed jewelry lot, it said, "Some pieces are signed while others are more generic looking."  -That's not good.  

[fbusoni]

I would reckon that AI generated descriptions slow down your sales. 

NO ONE wants to read extraneous and gratuitously unnecessary  text.

[gurlcat]

Well the example I just posted ^ showed how it can stupidly DENEGRATE the item.  It's not smart enough yet to know when it's doing that apparently.  

[centennialofthreads]

I don't use it as a seller, and don't like it as buyer. It never tells me anything about the lot at hand. Having to contact the seller is annoying when they could easily type a dozen words specifically about their item, I would think it would be annoying for them too. The same text on every other LIKE product is just overwhelmingly stupid.

[mp6468]

I hate the use of AI and strongly feel it should be discontinued. As a buyer I want a true description from the seller, not a bunch of fluff and smoke from a computer. I do not buy items that use AI descriptions.

[otto-parts]

It's garbage. I see sellers using it because they aren't familiar with the product. The AI often generates a lot of impossible nonsense and the seller is oblivious. Recently saw a CB radio listing that the AI claimed had:

• Automatic antenna tunner
• DSP
• Lithium-ion battery

Said CB was a vacuum tube rig manufactured in 1964 and that stuff would not be invented until decades later. Just a load of **bleep** lies made up out of thin air.

The only saving grace is, it stuffs the listing with a bunch of ridiculous superlatives such that you can recognize it's annoying style in an instant and so disregard it. If a salesperson hit you with that fluff, you'd walk out of the store.

I reiterate; garbage.

[verosm-52]

I mean these are okay but they should be written by human

[carzrfun]

I find them very irritating but sometimes amusing.  "Artificial" is the key word.  I buy collectible pens so I rely mostly on pictures and my prior experience with trusted sellers.  Telling me that a vintage pen will "add elegance to my writing" provides no value.  Just tell me that the item works mechanically and describe any dents or scratches not visible in the pictures and you have given me what I need.  Sad when people need this crutch to communicate.

[reelworks]

I agree completely, the whole AI option is a waste of time. I tried it a few times to see what it came up with and none of what it came up with applied to what I was listing. It was sort of like asking my ex sister in law who worked in a bakery to put an automatic transmission together.

Having the option on the listing page is about as worthless as the AI responses most of the time when you do a good search.

[mp36_2955]

It is sad people need the AI crutch. With alot of young people inept at even basic communication skills due to reliance on technology expect it to get worse as they enter the fray.

Without basic literacy or comprehension skills.

I believe they will be on this and other forums with the simplest to solve problems because they won't be able to think or reason things out for themselves. No one has ever told them "just figure it out".

Sad indeed.

[love2beselling]

I don't, as they are very wordy and not bullet point format.
I could see perhaps for new sellers it could be helpful, but I'd encourage them to heavily prune what is offered.

[sunny_ell]

My son, now 44, knows that when I hold up 3 fingers it means - Look It Up.

Isn't it funny how you always end up learning about things other than what you originally looked-up. We call it "chain searching".

Somehow he has learned to think for himself...