Simple searches show that Etsy, despite its anti-porn policy, lists AI-generated porn for sale; Etsy removed deepfake porn of 55+ celebs after being notified
a company worth nearly $10B — is still full of a ton of AI-generated porn. My latest for @forbes. https://www.forbes.com/...
Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop clear, consistent moderation policies and to manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war
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AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more
In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
NFT marketplace OpenSea acknowledges that its head of product, Nate Chastain, purchased NFTs he knew were going to be displayed prominently
On Wednesday the crypto marketplace … Will Feuer / New York Post : Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace admits insider trading incident Justina Lee / Bloomberg : Insider Scandal Shakes Up the Booming Wor...
A look at the grassroots movement of professional home bakers that have found a home on Etsy, where they can continue to be productive under lockdown
Homebound consumers are flocking to the site for scones, biscuits, breads, muffins, doughnuts and...alkaline tahini spelt cookies.
How the concept of free shipping forces small e-commerce businesses to eat the cost of shipping, as large sellers like Amazon do so at scale
How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we're such suckers for their ploys — It was a pair of feather earrings that helped Ann Miceli get out from underneath strangers' cars. Tweets: @jmilc...
Etsy researchers, using their computer vision algorithms, were able to classify styles across 60M+ Etsy listings with 76% accuracy
Style matters a lot to Etsy's millions of merchandisers. There's roughly 43 different categories their products occupy, from knitted ware and cosmetics … Tweets: @edbott Tweets: Ed Bott / @edbott : I...
Etsy's Success Gives Rise to Problems of Credibility and Scale
Depending on whom you ask, Alicia Shaffer, owner of the hit Etsy store Three Bird Nest, is a runaway success story — or an emblem of everything that has gone wrong with the fast-growing online marketp...