I run a store on Etsy, and I get emails from a marketing company called Marmalead to help sellers figure out how to optimize advertising on Etsy. They used to be quite a valuable resource but now all I get are emails from them on how to use their "AI" agent to do the thinking and copywriting for me.
So, that was all whatever until the last email I got from them saying that Etsy is now being swamped with "AI" generated listings that all look and sound the same. And (quelle shock!) buyers are scrolling past those listings because they look and read like the "AI" garbage that they are.
Their solution?
To use their "AI" agent to generate listing and copy text that doesn't sound like "AI"! (I sh*t you not).
They can't admit that they've trapped themselves in a dead end with no way out.
Oh, and I believe the "AI taking white collar jobs" story is a cover for the ongoing credit collapse. Job losses due to "Progress" is much more palatable than over-levered companies and equity firms admitting they effed up BIG time and have to fire a whole lot of people to save their greedy as$es.
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Date: 2026-03-15 02:41 am (UTC)I run a store on Etsy, and I get emails from a marketing company called Marmalead to help sellers figure out how to optimize advertising on Etsy. They used to be quite a valuable resource but now all I get are emails from them on how to use their "AI" agent to do the thinking and copywriting for me.
So, that was all whatever until the last email I got from them saying that Etsy is now being swamped with "AI" generated listings that all look and sound the same. And (quelle shock!) buyers are scrolling past those listings because they look and read like the "AI" garbage that they are.
Their solution?
To use their "AI" agent to generate listing and copy text that doesn't sound like "AI"! (I sh*t you not).
They can't admit that they've trapped themselves in a dead end with no way out.
Oh, and I believe the "AI taking white collar jobs" story is a cover for the ongoing credit collapse. Job losses due to "Progress" is much more palatable than over-levered companies and equity firms admitting they effed up BIG time and have to fire a whole lot of people to save their greedy as$es.
Tim PW