Hecking AI on Etsy just ruining my hecking dress hunt
Added 2025-04-29 01:47:28 +0000 UTCComments
AI and drop shipping have ruined so much of online shopping. I wish Amazon would stop offering outside merchandise. This extends to other places as well but the mumble jumble of 6 random English characters with 3000 of them selling the same item but worse than the original. I don't want to have to be a detective to buy some decent fricken socks!
kaldo
2025-05-04 12:37:55 +0000 UTCthe very last thing was reminding me of something and I just realized what it was. With retail pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 opening up this past month there was apparently an effort to flood eBay with listings for literally just a printed screenshot of a pre-order confirmation. Reportedly to inhibit the efforts of bot-assisted resellers. Seemed noble enough but it did make me wonder how successful an actual dishonest version of it might be. Seeing how much you can make off zombie clicks and/or reluctance or inability to get refunded.
Josh Brooks
2025-05-01 01:44:24 +0000 UTCI am glad Dog was there though, to lighten the mood from Yet Another Thing Ruined by AI
Adrien D
2025-04-30 03:12:16 +0000 UTCOne thing I hate about AI images (among the many) is that it makes us distrust every image now Like maybe the two women shoot is real, Fionna's making good arguments in their comments, but the very fact that we don't quite know and don't trust it because of it is awful. I hate having to always ask myself if the images I see from a seller are real or not, it's one more thing to help ruining the experience of using a site like that...
Adrien D
2025-04-30 03:05:03 +0000 UTCthis is part "real LPT in the comments" but also an interesting topic in itself. This seems like pretty reasonable language for a genAI policy, maybe even stricter than I would have thought. I wonder how accurate the framing of "there are no regulations for this sort of thing" is vs "the regulations exist but aren't being enforced"
Josh Brooks
2025-04-29 22:15:51 +0000 UTCI love your dog
bxtcher
2025-04-29 18:39:27 +0000 UTCsure, weddings may be the only time “adults” get to dress up, but the rules differ slightly for “newly-minted purveyors of whimsical nerdcore” :) I’d thought stock photos seemed like a tempting application for genAI. In the past couple days though I’ve seen posts of gpt-image future extrapolation feedback loops on popular/memed ones making the rounds, and oof. Maybe a step or two outside an actual use case, sure, but the degradation is instantaneous bordering on demonic. And the idea of human models being directed to imitate images generated by a robotic model, itself trained on images of human models? Feels closer to that than I’d like. Still Ouroboros, just longer and slower, probably. I’d like to think even the staunchest AI defenders are starting to learn where to hold/fold on this sorta thing. I like the mention of generated v. translated text though!! I’ve always been interested by the challenge of identifying and overcoming internal biases toward non-native speaker’s of one’s own language. ppl rly be using “English proficiency” as a stand-in for “intelligence” even if they don’t realize it. So the phenomenon of people, even native speakers, sort of willingly ceding their own proficiency in English to language models is something. May factor into the existing dynamic of prejudice somehow. Like I think I’ve seen educators starting to believe that a single middling essay written from the actual heart of a C student is worth a hundred generated ones that fit the assignment rubric. I can imagine feeling similar—like I’d rather email a colleague speaking ESL than one speaking LLM, because it’s an actual *person*. Been a Grammarly skeptic since day 1 and this feels like an evolution of that. But yeah always love the AI nuance here (and kinda want more wardrobe content too?) Like even I can’t deny the peak comedy of the pirate/cowboy/tricorne/??? Universal Theme Hat. And even if a human had thought of and made it, the idea of someone trying to craft in realspace the nonsensical rendering of a bot, to me, is funnier
Josh Brooks
2025-04-29 15:24:54 +0000 UTCThis is frustrating; yes, "just one more thing to distrust online", but also the AI makes it viable at scale - why would anyone go to the trouble of, y'know, actually designing and fabricating products when you can just flood the site with AI-generated slop, sit back and wait to see where the orders roll in? I wonder how the "legit" sellers are doing these days. (re. the logo, it looks like ChatGPT's Sora; also, there's something weird going on behind her thigh that I can't work out at ~14:46)
Simon J
2025-04-29 09:06:40 +0000 UTCYou should report these items on Etsy with that button in the corner, they're all against the site's policy: > When creating your listings, you must use your own photos—either photos you took yourself or had someone take for you. > Computer-generated mockups may be used in additional listing images to showcase customization options – just make sure your first image is the real deal.
Shemetz
2025-04-29 07:14:26 +0000 UTCWhat about the hands, don't the fingers seem to stretch out abnormally long when they move them?
Hendry
2025-04-29 02:44:44 +0000 UTCSo, ive got a knack for recognizing ai with my interest in art and lighting, and the women at 19:50 are not AI, theyre just moving in an extremely regulated way to make sure every frame is a potential product photo.
Fionna Campbell
2025-04-29 02:42:58 +0000 UTCIt's so depressing honestly, etsy used to be so cool...
Hendry
2025-04-29 02:27:24 +0000 UTCJust did! Gave him a scratch too!
Hendry
2025-04-29 02:24:12 +0000 UTCYou've made me terrified of the idea of looking for clothing on etay, now..! xD
Bailey Williams
2025-04-29 02:23:25 +0000 UTCI also didn't realize your dog was sitting there till halfway thru, can you tell them I said they are a good dog?
James R
2025-04-29 02:21:10 +0000 UTC
