eBay rolls out a tool that generates product listings from photos

Sep 8

Sep 8 eBay rolls out a tool that generates product listings from photos

We’ve covered Amazon’s recent AI tools for sellers, and now eBay is getting into the mix with a generative AI tool that (supposedly) automagically generates product descriptions from photos …

eBay is rolling out a new AI tool for marketplace sellers that can generate a product listing from a single photo.
Available 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.
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.
“The ‘photo-to-listing’ tool was built internally, and the team will use the listing data generated to ‘train’ the model internally. eBay terms and conditions state that we have a license to use listing data,” an eBay spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “At eBay, we’re using AI to reduce friction across the platform and transform the process of listing. With this tool, it makes the seller’s job of listing items incredibly painless, easy, and even fun.”