Etsy to restrict AI-generated content in effort to combat seller slop
- Etsy announced new restrictions Thursday on AI-generated content on its platform, saying it threatens the integrity of its sellers’ work and leaves buyers exposed to fraud.
- Among the new stipulations: Patterns, recipes, or any other item that involves a buyer “putting in effort to achieve a finished product” cannot be created using AI.
- Sellers must include at least one unaltered photo of the actual item against a real background.
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- Etsy announced new restrictions Thursday on AI-generated content on its platform, saying it threatens the integrity of its sellers’ work and leaves buyers exposed to fraud.
- Among the new stipulations: Patterns, recipes, or any other item that involves a buyer “putting in effort to achieve a finished product” cannot be created using AI.
- Sellers must include at least one unaltered photo of the actual item against a real background.
Sources: NBC News