Are people using AI to write eBay feedback now?

rollingmoon

Not that many people bother to leave feedback these days, so I was surprised to receive a full paragraph of flowery, meaningless nonsense in respect of a recent transaction. It's the very same standard of gibberish generated by the eBay AI listing tool, so it wasn't much of a leap to arrive at this conclusion... anyone else had this?

RFW

I rarely look at feedback but haven't seen any. If it's from a seller it's easier to understand than from a buyer. Depending on type of account sellers can automate feedback and can set it to alternate between (I think) ten or more. I could imagine someone without English as a first language using AI to generate something.

horsewithnoname

No. I always leave feedback, but I’m up to writing it myself 😁

rollingmoon

Here it is:

An excellent buying experience throughout, with the additional benefit of free postage too! The thingy was promptly dispatched within 24 hours of purchase & hence it arrived well within the estimated delivery timescale. Upon opening the box, I found that the thingy had been well protected therein, using multiple layers of bubblewrap & thus no damage was sustained by it as a result. I consider the thingy to be in reasonably good condition for its age & therefore I am pleased with it accordingly.

I mean, why bother?

Pollycat

rollingmoon said:

Here it is:

An excellent buying experience throughout, with the additional benefit of free postage too! The thingy was promptly dispatched within 24 hours of purchase & hence it arrived well within the estimated delivery timescale. Upon opening the box, I found that the thingy had been well protected therein, using multiple layers of bubblewrap & thus no damage was sustained by it as a result. I consider the thingy to be in reasonably good condition for its age & therefore I am pleased with it accordingly.

I mean, why bother?

Definitely AI tosh.

dinosaur66

i get long feedback  about 1 in a 100 - i do not think i have had any AI feedback but am not sure

only thing i look at is make sure its positive / my own feedback goes very good buyer / used to be enough now ebay want you to type more

RFW

rollingmoon said:

Here it is:

An excellent buying experience throughout, with the additional benefit of free postage too! The thingy was promptly dispatched within 24 hours of purchase & hence it arrived well within the estimated delivery timescale. Upon opening the box, I found that the thingy had been well protected therein, using multiple layers of bubblewrap & thus no damage was sustained by it as a result. I consider the thingy to be in reasonably good condition for its age & therefore I am pleased with it accordingly.

I mean, why bother?

Assuming "thingy" is substituted for the item it may be real. Had you used bubble wrap and was the item used but in good condition? I use AI a fair bit so it needs to have some information to do that. It would seem like an effort to upload the Ebay listing to AI and then explain the delivery process and then cut and paste it back into Ebay.
I've not heard of a buyer app that can do that but there may be a bidding one that has it as an add on. It would still need to know about the bubblewrap though.