
“We’ve been hard at work on the next version of a new, magical listing experience, which uses AI to analyze, research and extrapolate information from a small amount of data provided by the seller.”īut longtime sellers on eBay don’t appear to be pleased with the platform’s AI direction. “There’s no need to work through a cold start with AI: as soon as you’re ready to sell, your listing is ready to post,” eBay writes in a blog post. Not uncommonly, new sellers are overwhelmed by the amount of info they need to enter to create a competitive listing, eBay claims - so what better way to overcome that than by removing the need to enter info altogether? In that same blog post, Ireland telegraphed the release of the tool launching today.ĮBay says that the tool is aimed at addressing the “cold start” issue often experienced by first-time sellers on its platform. business, said in a blog post that eBay plans to roll out a plugin that’ll let sellers auto-generate item descriptions based on content already available across the web - powered by an OpenAI language model. In May, Adam Ireland, head of eBay’s U.S. With this tool, it makes the seller’s job of listing items incredibly painless, easy, and even fun.” “At eBay, we’re using AI to reduce friction across the platform and transform the process of listing.

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eBay terms and conditions state that we have a license to use listing data,” an eBay spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.


“The ‘photo-to-listing’ tool was built internally, and the team will use the listing data generated to ‘train’ the model internally. The tool builds on eBay’s other efforts to inject AI into the selling process, including AI-generated product catalog descriptions and a background removal tool for listing photos.
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EBay is rolling out a new AI tool for marketplace sellers that can generate a product listing from a single photo.Īvailable in the eBay app for iOS to start, with the Android app to follow in the coming weeks, the tool can automatically write a title and description based on a photo, as well as information including a product release date, and suggest a category, subcategory, list price and shipping cost.
