We wonder how many private websites have AI images that will be affected by this law. How many of them will even know of the law?
Next up ⌠will there be a challenge to AI titles, bullets, and descriptions?
The Wild Wild West has a new competitor ⌠the Wild Wild AI âŚ
I mean i dont hate the ny law on the surface (I need to read deeper though)
Having the disclosure in the meta data isnât something most buyers are going to see unless they are digging for it. Because of that, we donât know how much impact the law will have in protecting the buyers as apposed to being a revenue source for NY by creating a way to fine retailers using the AI to sell their goods who donât disclose.
Hopefully the browsers will pickup and mark such images. Imo they should be plain text labeled
Amazon has thought of that already-
âWhen you include this metadata, weâll add an indicator to inform customers that the image includes AI-generated people, where applicable.â
This is from their news clip about it. Of course the devil is in the details. If itâs a tiny notification in the lower right corner that no one will pay attention to or if they put a large âWarning AI contentâ banner across the top? Guess weâll have to wait and see.
My question is what does âfeaturedâ mean? This is from the updated images and video guidelines-
When to provide this metadata
Provide the contains-synthetic-performer tag if your image features people who were entirely generated by AI (not based on a real person).
When not to provide this metadata
Do not provide this metadata if any of the following conditions apply:
- Your image only features real people (even if they have been altered with AI-powered tools) or
- Your image only features characters from movies, video games, or other expressive works (or example, the poster art of a movie or a video game cover art)
- Your image does not feature any people
- The people in your image arenât photorealistic
Does âfeaturedâ mean something like an AI person explaining or using products as the main portion of the pic/video or do they mean anything AI generated, even if itâs just in the background? I have several images on listings that were AI generated based on my original product pics. The products themselves havenât been altered but I did have AI redo the backgrounds and there are instances with AI generated people in the background. They arenât what I would consider to be âfeaturedâ as itâs just the background, but where are those lines drawn?
All my AI people were generated by Amazonâs AI machine. Iâm hoping Amazon already meta tagged it for me, because I donât have the time nor energy for this.
AI has apparently been used by unscrupulous rental brokers in NYC to improve the online pictures of apartments, leading to lines of people checking out absolute dumps.
I take it back. Iâm working on it right now and itâs not too bad. My AI people were mostly generated for A+ content. My listings have real people, so itâs not too bad.
Thatâs a very good question, as we all know how capricious Amazon - and itâs ever-expanding army of Amabots - can be.
Just to be safe from any possible enforcement violations, Iâd think it advisable to add the âcontains-synthetic-performerâ Tag to the File Properties sheet of all such images in the âDetailsâ section as explained in the SHCâs âHow to tag media that contains an AI-generated personâ @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/FXHCHYZRGJRBZA5.
May I ask if you downloaded those locally, and if so, whether youâve checked the Details section of the File Properties sheets for those images, to verify whether or not Amazon included the âcontains-synthetic-performerâ Tag when its automated mechanisms created them?
Most images files (among other file types, such as Adobe Acrobat .pdf, many Microsoft Office file types, various music & video files, etc.) now include an editable âTagsâ functionality in such a File Properties dialog box, like this âSnipping Toolâ-created example of one our Amazon PDP images taken from one of our Windows 10 workstations (I invoked the editorial function by left-clicking in the editable field in the âValueâ section so as to display the âAdd a tagâ dialog; that doesnât actually appear until the user does this):
Weâve not ourselves used any Amazon AI-created images, but when they first rolled out the functionality a few years back, I did save some of the suggested ones (primarily because they were ludicrously bad @ product placement in various backgrounds), and Iâm not seeing the newly-specified âcontains-synthetic-performerâ Tag in any of the property sheets.
I did download the ones weâre using and they donât have the proper tags, which means lots of sellers will be affected, because I suspect weâre not the only ones using them. I have updated a lot of the AI photos, but Iâm now at the point of not knowing which weâve updated and which weâve not (we reuse the images in different A+ content pages). Is there an easy way to tell which images that are posted have that tag? I wish I could just update one image and it populates everywhere the image shows up.
Youâd think those tags would show up when I hover, but that isnât the case. Not sure why theyâre needed if itâs that hard to find them.
To be fair, thatâs because the metadata in this context is âStructuralâ - intended to enhance machine-readability by computing systems, basically - as opposed to âGuideâ metadata, which is intended, basically, to facilitate human-readability.
Amazonâs goal here to improve discoverability by the A9/A10 Algorithm Sales Engine - and to avoid the types of fines that other tech giants have suffered as a result of poorly-parameterized AI implementations.