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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Be honest, do you even care if clothes are designed by AI? 👀 (no wrong answers)
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!
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!
I care more that this is going to send fast fashion even more out of control. This could very easily spell disaster.
yes
@@tormaid42 Nice that you're putting child abuse and artists getting ripped, on the same shelf.
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.
Honestly we would be too 😂 -Alfred
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.
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?
They gotta shoehorn AI in there for shareholders looking at new buzzwords
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.
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
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?
Intel is proud to be a part of the creation of the Torment Nexus from the classic book Don’t Create the Torment Nexus
lmao
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.
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.
That is just for SEO.
@@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.
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.
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.
I am CRYING at the three arms and background drops for the dress at the end 😅😅😅
Intel sponsoring a video about janky AI seems very on brand
Companies need to use buzz words like AI to please investors, even if they don't even know what to use it for yet
Why is the sponsor segment so LOUD?!
So you wake up!
Awful on all accounts. AI could be used for prototyping, but they still need to size, fit and test on real people before selling.
If this is the future, it's going to be very depressing...
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
Yep, ans plagiarism is already an issue with fast fashion but this will send it into overdrive.
Generative AI is just Massive Plagiarism
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.
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.
Skipping one of the most crucial steps in preproduction seems like a bad idea.
You cannot blame this on AI. This is all on the store. AI only creates the mockup. It does not make it.
Why do you change the thumbnail so often? Is this like a KZhead 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?
This was good. I mean the content. Not the terribly made clothing
The fact that it’s called finesse is all you need to know 💀
How _fitting_ is the name though. Finessing you out of your money. "Finesse". Wow.
A fashion haul on the Verge wasn't on my bingo card
I feel like this Finesse company is a lawsuit just waiting to happen
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”
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
I got pants from Finesse for the Eras tour and was very pleased!
I love content like this!
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!
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.
We are living in the age of real-time fashion where the clothing industry will continue to get worse for everyone involved.
I can see A LOT of class action lawsuits coming out of this.
How many more thumbnails can this video get??
no pueden traducir no hablo Englisch
Off/Script is much better. They produce high-quality fashion products for creators, powered by AI.
That sounds dope, whats their website?
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this is scary
who else thinks that most of it is just a tacky version of famous designs, worse than SheIn, temu.
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 KZhead 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 KZhead 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.
What in the world is this
To be fair, this is the worst this stuff will ever be.
Does it matter that these companies don’t fit their prototype clothes on “real” people? That blue dress might actually fit somebody, just not Mia.
“Levi experimented with AI models…”? oh, I see you meant AI *generated* models… generated by AI models.