Yay or Nay on AI?

AI is great for this kind of thing. We use it to make lifestyle images for our soaps. Sometimes it does get proportions or dimensions wrong so we just prompt it again to fix the error and that usually works fine. Learning how to prompt is the key to getting good images.

-Ana

To fix this in my CAD program, you check a box called “Show Intersections.” :wink:

Interference Check in Revit.
Can’t have ducts, pipes, structural steel, lights, etc trying to occupy the same physical space.

Got a kick from this. An Etsy seller including this AI slop on ALL their listings in the “Learn more about this item”

Gemstone:- Opal

Gemstone Shape:- Oval

Ring Size :- All Sizes Available

Metal:- 925 Sterling Silver ( We also make in gold so please feel free ask us if you want)

Order:- We Take custom And Bulk Orders

PLEASE GIVE YOUR OPENION OR FEEDBACK ABOUT THE PRODUCT.

Our first rule is to serve the costumer with best we can in the best way possible as we prefer to give the best quality at the most affordable price.

Strengths:

  1. Customer-Centric Approach: The emphasis on customer satisfaction and the willingness to customize products based on customer needs stands out. Offering personalized designs and free consultations makes the process more appealing.

  2. Transparency: The clear mention of quality, gemstones, and your satisfaction guarantee (e.g., money-back promise if stones are not natural) helps build trust. Your willingness to back up your products with a 200% money-back guarantee is an excellent reassurance for potential buyers.

  3. Craftsmanship & Authenticity: Mentioning that your products are handmade using traditional methods, especially from a place with a long history of jewelry making like Jaipur, adds value to your products. This provides a sense of authenticity and craftsmanship that will resonate with buyers looking for something unique.

  4. Flexible and Comprehensive Service: The fact that you offer a variety of sizes, metals, and gemstones adds versatility, making your products appealing to a wide range of tastes. Plus, the fact that you don’t have a middleman gives you an edge in pricing.

Suggestions for Improvement:

  1. Grammar and Clarity:
    There are a few grammatical errors and slight redundancies in the description that can be tightened up to improve professionalism. Here’s an example of a clearer revision for one of the sections:

Original: “Size:-All Size Available as we are factory people we can make any design in any shape with any gemstone you want all you have to do is just tell us what you want and we will serve you with the best we can.”

Revised: “Sizes: We offer all sizes. As we are direct manufacturers, we can create any design in any shape with any gemstone you desire. Just tell us your specifications, and we’ll deliver the best quality jewelry to match your vision.”

Simplifying and streamlining some sentences can make the message clearer.

  1. Focus on Unique Selling Points (USPs):
    It might help to make the unique features of your business stand out more. For instance, you could emphasize your direct manufacturing (no middleman) and the traditional, handmade techniques you use, which many customers might find more appealing than mass-produced jewelry.

  2. Tone Consistency:
    In some parts, the tone shifts between informal and formal, such as in phrases like “feel free to contact us anytime” vs. “we are always here to serve you with the best we can.” While both are friendly, choosing one tone and maintaining consistency throughout will make the description feel more polished.

  3. Shipping and Delivery:
    It’s great that you provide a clear timeline for shipping, but it could be reworded to avoid any confusion. For example, specifying the average shipping time as “1-3 weeks” and explaining potential delays upfront would help manage expectations.

  4. Call to Action:
    While the description is informative, it could benefit from a more direct call to action. Something like “Contact us today to start designing your dream jewelry” or “Browse our collection and order now for custom designs” can encourage potential customers to act immediately.

  5. Proof of Quality:
    A testimonial or two from satisfied customers or a mention of any quality certifications (if applicable) could help reinforce the trust factor. Including a link to a lab that certifies your gemstones would also be a nice touch.

Revised Version Example:


Welcome to [Your Brand Name] Jewelry – Where Quality Meets Affordability

At [Your Brand Name], our mission is to provide our customers with high-quality, beautifully crafted jewelry at the best possible prices. As a small, direct manufacturer based in Jaipur, we eliminate the middleman to pass on the savings to you, ensuring that you get the best value without compromising on craftsmanship or material.

Our Offerings:

  • Custom Jewelry Designs: We offer a wide range of designs in any shape, size, or gemstone you desire. Whether you’re looking for a unique engagement ring, a personalized bracelet, or something special for a loved one, we’re here to bring your vision to life.

  • Precious Metals: Choose from 14K, 18K, White Gold, or Yellow Gold. We can also create jewelry to your exact specifications if you have a particular metal preference.

  • Natural Gemstones: All our gemstones are 100% natural. We stand by the quality of our gems and offer a 200% money-back guarantee if any stone is found to be synthetic.

  • Handmade Craftsmanship: We take pride in our traditional, handmade jewelry-making process, passed down through generations in Jaipur. Each piece is carefully crafted with love and attention to detail.

Customer Satisfaction Guarantee:

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out. We’re always here to ensure you get the best possible experience with us. We strive for complete customer satisfaction, and if you’re ever unhappy with your order, we’ll make it right.

Shipping & Delivery:

We ship within 3-5 business days after production. Custom orders may take a bit longer, but we will keep you informed every step of the way. All items are fully insured during transit for your peace of mind. Delivery typically takes 1-3 weeks, depending on your location.

Payment Options:

We accept all major payment methods for your convenience. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need assistance or have any special payment requests.

Start Your Custom Jewelry Journey Today!

Get in touch with us to create the perfect piece of jewelry or browse our existing collection. We can’t wait to help you design something beautiful!


Final Thoughts:

Your commitment to quality and customer service really shines through

I thought the story on Yahoo the other day was ‘interesting’. Maybe some AI software developers might want to study some history and read about the etymology of the word saboteur.

“Others spoke out. “Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning,” another employee told Bosworth. Bosworth insisted that the data the company gathers “is very tightly controlled” and that there was no “leak risk.””

“Feeling the pressure to adopt the tech, there’re now so many AI agents throughout the company that employees are building AI agents to find other AI agents, and even rate them.”

I wonder how many of these 8k laid-off workers were (are?) AI cheerleaders?

Three AI-related news pieces over in News for Ecomm Sellers today:

I’m skeptical that this will happen, but concerned that people want it to happen, not because it will free up people to do things besides work to survive, but because they just don’t have to pay people anymore.

I admit to being a Luddite-usually am ashamed of it!! I belong in the horse-and buggy age(this weekend, am reading a memoir of a woman author born in Brookline. MA in 1886.[died in 1969], the brink of the computer age. She mentions her bank making more errors since computerized Think she and I would get along just fine)

After reading several different threads and one complaint from @doilyboutique444 where AI has broken into her custom listings and decreased her sales, am no longer embarrassed.

Why would a cold-blooded computer, chock-full of details/statistics, be able to write a listing that appeals to other humans, who buy merchandise.not by logic but by ill-logic. Because they like, no. "love: an item, a feeling unknown to machines (Oh, my grandchild Sven will look so cute in those footie pajamas).

We’re proud of our condition notes. Takes a lotta time to write em!! Just hope AI doesn’t break into book listings next.

I have several friends and even more contacts in various tech, business, and creative industries reporting “AI fatigue”–both individual strain and energy-sapping, and overall disillusionment with the constant pressure to use AI at the eventual expense of their own jobs.

When each task takes less time, you don’t do fewer tasks. You do more tasks. Your capacity appears to expand, so the work expands to fill it. And then some.


plaintiffs in the lawsuit — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage — allege that Meta and Zuckerberg “illegally torrented millions of copyrighted books and journal articles” and “downloaded unauthorized web scrapes of virtually the entire internet.” Meta then copied the stolen material many times over, the plaintiffs allege, to train the AI system — effectively engaging “in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted material in history.”

The publishers’ complaint states Meta distributed millions of copyrighted works without authorization and without compensating authors or publishers, claiming that Zuckerberg “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” They also claim that Meta removed copyright notices and copyright management information from the works used to train the AI model, known as Llama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/05/publishers-sue-meta-ai-copyright/

All related to Project Panama :expressionless_face:

The Washington Post reported earlier this year that the AI company spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the models behind its products. The details of the effort, known as Project Panama, were outlined in documents unsealed in a now-settled case brought by authors against Anthropic.

:man_facepalming: :man_facepalming:

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/amazon-joins-microsoft-in-sending-shocking-message-to-employees

AI is my new favorite thing for coding and not for literally anything else.

The only reason I like it for coding is that it can produce garbage faster than any junior dev, and with a few tweaks and a bunch of error handling, I can get something working a bit faster than if I were just doing it all myself.

If you’re using AI for listings, though… you’re gonna have a bad time.

Amazon’s search system still seems to value keyword diversity over repetition, and the AI models do a lot of repetition.

Pretty predictable. You want to force us to use this stuff? We can game the system faster than you can think.

Amazon caught red handed spinning a story that would make Pinocchio have a 12 foot nose. Emphasis added for ‘clarity’ :smiling_face_with_sunglasses::smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

“An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the leaderboard had been “deprecated” and said the dashboard was an informal tracker created by a group of employees and “was never intended to promote the use of AI for usage’s sake,” Business Insider confirmed.”

We use it quite a bit for some of our ads on the bay. A lot of it is for listing print advertising, where it is quite good at generating good basic titles, and way faster than we are at identifying many celebs or significant buildings.
It’s also good on some of the jewelry stuff for figuring out designers/marks, etc.

But it’s generating basically just title and keywords; not a detailed description. That might take longer to check to see it was correct than it would take to write from scratch.

I mean, I think that’s generally true. They probably didn’t mean for people to just use AI for random garbage. They thought they were encouraging people to automate more of their work, but instead they found people were wasting time with it.

It’s very easy to waste time with AI.

I think people are finally learning that it’s a tool like any other, has a use, and isn’t magic.

I laughed pretty hard.
Of course it was created by employees! It’s called “work” and it’s what they are paid to do. You tell someone to build an AI leaderboard, and they build you an AI leaderboard. You think these things generate spontaneously?

As for the “never intended to blah blah,” that’s a blatant lie and we all know it.

Well, they want AI to do everything their employees do…

In a regular work day, with no immediate deadline, “white collar” employees probably do 4 hrs of meaningful work in an 8 hour day, maybe. The rest is going to the bathroom, waiting for a meeting to start, browsing the internet between tasks, personal phone calls, BSing with fellow employees, planning time off, thinking about dinner, dealing with their kids, etc.

The tracking of time as the measure of what was “accomplished” in a workweek has long not made sense for “white collar” work and to an extent even for trades where you’re not making the exact same widget every shift of every day.

Hours only really apply to something like a store / restaurant / dr office / mechanic / etc being open or the length of time for a party / event, etc. or a shift at Amazon, logistics, etc.

I mean…it was predictable in foresight, too.

And LOL to this message (poor Dave, probably owed someone a favor to have to say this):

Dave Treadwell, Amazon’s senior vice president of engineering, addressed the issue directly. “Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” he told staff. “Use AI to help you solve customer problems, to help you solve business problems, to innovate.”

THEY NEED TO SHOUT THIS WIDELY:

The pattern across Amazon, Meta, Uber, and Microsoft is consistent: heavy AI usage generated costs but not proportional outcomes, and leadership has begun to say so publicly.