Online shopping in the era of AI is confusing

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Generative artificial intelligence is all over the online shopping space - but has that actually made the experience better? The Verge reporter Mia Sato did a try-on and review of clothes by the AI fashion brand Finesse. And afterwards, she tested AI-powered e-commerce tools that generate images and product descriptions.
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00:00 Intro
00:35 AI shopping tools
01:35 Finesse and AI fashion
04:04 Generative AI in other retail spaces
05:10 Our Finesse order arrives
05:23 Finesse try-on section
08:22 Using Pebblely AI shopping tool to resell our Finesse haul
09:42 Auto Generating our product description on eBay
10:37 Did AI Improve our shopping experience?
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@TheVerge Ай бұрын

Be honest, do you even care if clothes are designed by AI? 👀 (no wrong answers)

@tormaid42 Ай бұрын

Be honest, do you even care if clothes were made using child labor? If not, then I guess using AI that steals from real artists is the least of your concerns!

@3eeple Ай бұрын

I could not care less if it's AI or human designed. I do care if the clothes I buy are destroying the environment, shipped from across the world, and are made in sweatshops in SEA... Cool video though, Mia!

@SilverEye91 Ай бұрын

I care more that this is going to send fast fashion even more out of control. This could very easily spell disaster.

@carlwheezer1544 Ай бұрын

yes

@20nar Ай бұрын

@@tormaid42 Nice that you're putting child abuse and artists getting ripped, on the same shelf.

@NielsLieman Ай бұрын

I would feel scammed if there are 3 arms in the picture of the advertisement and I would not receive a 3 arm sweater after purchasing.

@pebblely Ай бұрын

Honestly we would be too 😂 -Alfred

@undercoverduck Ай бұрын

The line "companies in all different industries are jumping to find a use for AI" in the intro perfectly summarizes the problem with the current AI hype. AI tools are not created with a specific purpose in mind. They are created because we can, because it's the hot new tech that has investors frotting at the mouth. Nobody seems to be asking what the benefit is, why we should be doing any of this. These companies are just charging ahead blindfolded hoping that they'll run into a pile of gold rather than a spike pit.

@undercoverduck Ай бұрын

Why should I let an AI predict my size if measurement tables already exist? Why should an AI come up with a more detailed description when the seller has physical access to their merch to base their description on? Why deal with the perils of AI shortcomings when vastly more accurate options already exist?

@coreymeh8335 Ай бұрын

They gotta shoehorn AI in there for shareholders looking at new buzzwords

@NewtrendsMe Ай бұрын

I always like to tell myself that Data is the new gold. It's like the 1850s Gold Rush all over again. Lots of dust but very few nuggets.

@SilverEye91 Ай бұрын

Oh good God, fast fashion was already out of control and a true cancer on society. And now it's going to get significantly worse. Can we, like, stop?

@echowarp Ай бұрын

I guess fast fashion wasn't fast enough to fill the deserts with trash, thank god the AI is here to end all the sand

@SpaceJazz3K Ай бұрын

Intel is proud to be a part of the creation of the Torment Nexus from the classic book Don’t Create the Torment Nexus

@sullivan4052 Ай бұрын

lmao

@SilverEye91 Ай бұрын

That Ebay feature is truly insane. Did no one think, like, at all? Generating a text like that is helpful to exactly no one. That's too long without actually saying anything. If I was scrolling through items a description like that would not be read.

@TheOfficialOriginalChad Ай бұрын

eBay has never treated the description like something the buyer needs to read. On Mobile they don’t even show the description on the item page, only a button to open an overlay with the description. And when was the last time you trusted the description on a non-eBay product? Have you ever read “#1 product” on the box and thought “oh wow, #1, I can’t miss this opportunity”? I think AI taking over these kinds of things is a good thing. It exposes it for what it really is: just fluff.

@saulgoodman2018 Ай бұрын

That is just for SEO.

@SilverEye91 Ай бұрын

@@TheOfficialOriginalChadBut a good description I do trust. Something that just tells me what the item is. In the case of an item of clothing things like brand, store, size and fit are good. Something about the quality of the item. AI should only be involved in formatting that info and fix grammatical errors. That's what second hand selling sites need. More words helps exactly no one. And I am genuinely amazed that Ebay doesn't understand that.

@coreymeh8335 Ай бұрын

the only AI i want is better edge, object detection and object removal in lightroom. i just want tools that can assist not so much outright create.

@ShayanQ 13 күн бұрын

Tbf that tech always existed, like how portrait mode on phones works. It's just companies like Apple and Google have limited themselves for using this tech in hyperspecific places and not given the tools to more people.

@JaibirSethi Ай бұрын

Intel sponsoring a video about janky AI seems very on brand

@aleanndraeastman9764 Ай бұрын

I am CRYING at the three arms and background drops for the dress at the end 😅😅😅

@Bugside Ай бұрын

Companies need to use buzz words like AI to please investors, even if they don't even know what to use it for yet

@mrurkel Ай бұрын

Why is the sponsor segment so LOUD?!

@Stilo95 Ай бұрын

So you wake up!

@initiallytk Ай бұрын

Awful on all accounts. AI could be used for prototyping, but they still need to size, fit and test on real people before selling.

@kennethuyabeme Ай бұрын

Oh I get it, this makes it even easier way to further flood the market with cheap low quality clothing and products. What a time to be alive.

@saulgoodman2018 Ай бұрын

You cannot blame this on AI. This is all on the store. AI only creates the mockup. It does not make it.

@EnglishMike Ай бұрын

If this is the future, it's going to be very depressing...

@connorvor1 Ай бұрын

Intel, such poor advertising. This video is a critique of Ai and Intel went ahead and decided, “hmm yes, let’s advertise the fact that we’re pushing Ai hard for everything”

@valramos2003 Ай бұрын

Initially appalled by the garments that got shipped. You would definitely not wear them out as is BUT! I thought, they could serve as a prototype or mockup base that can be modified and tweaked to you size or design. If you were taught how to sew in school or would like to learn more, the process of "correcting" these can serve as a practice of sorts. Much like modifying take out food to suit your taste, or editing text produced by AI to suit your exposition style.

@majdkasoaa9055 Ай бұрын

Why do you change the thumbnail so often? Is this like a KZfaq thing where it switches between multiple ones automatically? Or do you guys change it manually if you see there's a better shot you can use or if the video doesn't get enough clicks with the initial thumbnail?

@mmageek Ай бұрын

Skipping one of the most crucial steps in preproduction seems like a bad idea.

@noahsmith1187 21 күн бұрын

The fact that it’s called finesse is all you need to know 💀

@katyschildmeyerksapparelde2441 Ай бұрын

Apotheosis is the only market avatar made for apparel as they are designed for reality. All other avatars are made for gaming. The avatars cause fail rates that will end in landfills

@LashanR Ай бұрын

I feel like this Finesse company is a lawsuit just waiting to happen

@dan110024 24 күн бұрын

This was good. I mean the content. Not the terribly made clothing

@carlwheezer1544 Ай бұрын

fast fashion is already a major problem and i will never support it, the use of AI will make it 100x worse whilst also committing plagiarism

@SilverEye91 Ай бұрын

Yep, ans plagiarism is already an issue with fast fashion but this will send it into overdrive.

@FranciscoAreasGuimaraes Ай бұрын

Generative AI is just Massive Plagiarism

@maximilianb7722 Ай бұрын

A fashion haul on the Verge wasn't on my bingo card

@anoopsurej5388 Ай бұрын

How _fitting_ is the name though. Finessing you out of your money. "Finesse". Wow.

@mrcraggle Ай бұрын

We are living in the age of real-time fashion where the clothing industry will continue to get worse for everyone involved.

@benjamincouture7224 Ай бұрын

Stealing from independent designers to sell poor quality items... AI-powered or not, let's not support this company. If you want an alternative, Off/Script is much better.

@Tokuushi Ай бұрын

While I appreciate some of the technological advancements, innovations and benefits that AI provides, I sometimes feel the tech industry's push for civilisation to quickly adopt these new technologies might backfire and have some serious consequences on the human race. Some of these AI tools really do make a mockery of what it means to be human!

@cadenchurchill4296 Ай бұрын

I love content like this!

@JoveroIV Ай бұрын

How many more thumbnails can this video get??

@octothorpe12 Ай бұрын

I can see A LOT of class action lawsuits coming out of this.

@kelseysowder3848 Ай бұрын

I got pants from Finesse for the Eras tour and was very pleased!

@hanve Ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@benjamincouture2613 Ай бұрын

Off/Script is much better. They produce high-quality fashion products for creators, powered by AI.

@nadslab Ай бұрын

That sounds dope, whats their website?

@BarbaraMilagroHernandezPaneque Ай бұрын

no pueden traducir no hablo Englisch

@k700i Ай бұрын

this is scary

@amitasahasrabudhe6413 21 күн бұрын

who else thinks that most of it is just a tacky version of famous designs, worse than SheIn, temu.

@swng314 Ай бұрын

What in the world is this

@burrito-town Ай бұрын

The irony of this video is that while the clothing manufacturer screwed up the clothing, The Verge screwed up the audio in this video. Right click on this video and select "Stats for Nerds". From there you will see that KZfaq measures the audio in this video as 9.8 dB too quiet. If you're not familiar with this number, 5 dB too quiet is noticeable and 10 dB too quiet is unacceptable. That number is supposed to be at or very near 0.0 dB. Hey The Verge, whoever is in charge of exporting your videos for KZfaq needs to Google "how to make sure audio is loud enough for youtube" because they clearly don't understand what they're doing. This video is way to quiet. This might be an acceptable mistake for a channel with 3.4k subscribers, but it's wholly unacceptable for a channel with 3.4M subscribers. Y'all really need to fix this problem.