Do this: Paste your five best-selling listings into a free chatbot and get back every line a marketplace's new AI rules would flag, already fixed.
PASTE THIS
You are checking marketplace listings against a new AI disclosure rule. The rules: functional guides (patterns, recipes, instructions) cannot be AI-made. Every listing needs at least one unedited photo of the real item. A human must be behind the listing, not a bot. AI-made art is allowed only if it is disclosed and not sold as handmade. For each listing: the rule it breaks, the exact line to change, and a replacement under 20 words. If a listing breaks no rule, say CLEAR and stop. Listings: [paste the title and first 100 words of each description]
You'll get: A short fix list you can work through in one sitting, plus the disclosure sentence to paste under every listing before your holiday stock goes live.
The four lines to put beside anything AI touched
Marketplaces are turning disclosure into a listing requirement, and buyers are asking anyway. Here is the note, ready to paste into your site footer, your quotes and your invoices. Swap in your business name and delete nothing.
"We use AI to help draft and check our work. A person here reviews and signs off everything you receive. Where an image or a description was made with AI, it says so on the page. If you would rather have the handmade version, ask and you will get it."
Four lines. It answers the question before a customer asks it, and it is the cheapest insurance against a refund argument you cannot win.
Etsy just made trust a listing requirement: a real photo, a human behind the shop, a label when AI made the thing. No regulator ordered it. Buyers did, and at checkout buyers are the only regulator that counts. Expect the same question from your own customers this quarter, phrased as a refund request rather than a policy memo.
Etsy will stop sellers listing AI-made recipes, patterns and instructions, and now requires an unedited photo of the real item plus a human behind every listing, CNBC reports.
Its stated reason is the part to steal: buyers who cannot tell what is AI now call it a top-three reason they shop there less.
So what: before your holiday listings go live this week, put one real photo and one disclosure line on your five best sellers, or wear the takedown in your busiest month.
Meta is paying its AI bill with borrowed money
Meta's free cash flow went to negative $2.12 billion last quarter, capex guidance rose to $135 billion to $145 billion, and its five-year credit default swap spread hit an all-time high, CNBC reports. The plan is a network where every customer's agent buys from yours, The Verge reports. So what: before you prepay a year of any AI tool this quarter, ask for monthly billing or a pro-rata refund, because a prepaid year is an unsecured loan to a vendor you cannot audit.
Your agent can log in without holding your password
1Password now signs an AI agent into your accounts while keeping the password out of its hands: the agent proves its identity, you approve the login on your phone, and the password manager fills it in, TechCrunch reports. So what: this week, replace every password pasted into an AI tool with a delegated login, and treat the next tool that asks for the raw password as the risk.
Update: one IT supplier, 2,250 companies
Attackers behind the ConnectWise breach tried to sign in to more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, using an open-source AI attack tool and reaching privileged access in under three hours at some firms, The Register reports. So what: ask your IT provider in writing this week which remote-management tools it runs, and whether every credential was rotated since the breach.
This week's question: the marketplace now wants proof a person made the listing, and AI made half of the photos. What goes first? The photo, not the copy. Put one unedited picture of the actual item first, plain background, shot on a phone, and move the AI-assisted images to second place with a one-line label. Then rewrite the opening two sentences of the description in plain words, because that is the part a buyer reads before deciding you are a reseller. The rule is not 'no AI'; it is 'no pretending'. Keep the tools where they save time, label them where they buy trust.
If your biggest marketplace banned AI-made listings tomorrow, what would you do first?
A. Label and fix every listing
B. Move sales to a site you own
C. Sell as before and hope
D. Already disclose everything
Reply with one letter — results next issue.
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