Soooooo …
- I see a VAST amount of editing by Amazon AI because LOTS of sellers violate the existing bullet point policies
- I wonder if this will lock the page from seller edits
[mod edit: added NSFE link and quote tags]
I wonder how long until they stop ‘shar[ing] any… improvements with you for review before we publish them’.
Are they really going to knock out the emojis this time because I have heard that before and they are everywhere on Amazon, even on some big national brand items (SOLD BY AND SHIPPED BY AMAZON)…
Not long… They will release some BS statistic that says those that went along with Amazon’s AI saw a 50% increase in sales (LOL) and it will become automatic.
The million dollar question …
We believe there have already been some examples of that happening already ( but with titles).
That’s been a reported several times over in the NSFE and related discussion venues over the last year or two, and I confirmed the gobbledygook on two or three PDPs at various times.
In some of the NSFE cases, the FMT-CMT escalated the problem and got it fixed.
With all due respect where it’s due:
The Sun IS sinking in The West
…
It’s time for the android to dream
I know you are right. We needed to do a title change and the only way to get it done was with SAS Escalations. Registered Brand (ours) - no other sellers on the listing.
Locked tighter than Fort Knox
I wonder if brackets “[/]” are restricted characters, because it seems like every China-made listing is using them in their bullet points lately.
Do not include below information. Bullet points with below information will be removed or updated:
- Special characters such as ™, ®, €, …, †, ‡, o, ¢, £, ¥, ©, ±, ~, â
Many of these I get. (Some of these are a little absurd.) The letter o, though? I assume they don’t want people attempting to make their own bullet points. Looking forward to the bot they set loose on this going haywire and flagging listings that use the literal letter o in their bullet points. Also, I guess you have to hope you don’t run afoul of the trademark bots by leaving off TM on licensed properties?
That may not be the letter “o” … it is most likely a “dot” that is not filled in which makes it look like an “o”.
I thought of that, so I copied it directly from the HTML source. It seemed to just… outright be the letter o.
The “such as” would seem to indicate that the list is larger…and, by extension, secret. 
Whatever Amazon meant, it simply didn’t render.
What I see on listings isn’t even a true bracket [ ] but a weird bracket emoji【 】
“In addition to our existing review processes, we’ll use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help us optimize listing quality.”
Ummm excuse me???
“We’ll remove non-compliant content and use AI to generate compliant, high-quality bullet points.”
Nah, nothing could go wrong with this.
“We’ll share any AI-generated quality-related improvements with you for review before we publish them to your listings.”
Well, we could review them but I highly doubt we will be listened to if we have a disagreement.
What can I see the AI bot doing?
- Making medical claims that nasal spray will cure brain cancer
- Claim that the Cleveland Clowns won the last 6 super bowls.
- Recognize Xi as the winner of the 2024 presidential election with Angela Merckel as his vice president.
- Al Gore invented the internet.
- Nebuchadnezzar painted the Sistine Chapel.
- Scranton, PA is one of the seven wonders of the world.
- The Illuminati use the Vulcan Salute as it’s secret handshake.
He didn’t?
I did.
papyrophilia invented the internet
See? Now AI thinks it’s true because it’s on the internet.
Good point!
Considering the “â” on the list, I imagine many other foreign characters are involved.
So I have to assume that this dictate does not apply to Amazon’s international platforms.
so … would that be …
mother of all internet
or
father of all internet
cause you know AI can not recognize gender by name alone …