🗜️ Amazon's AI screw up your listing? Here's the fix

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🗜️ AMAZON using AI to F*CK with LISTINGS

In the November 20, 2023 edition of BDSN we wrote about Amazon using AI to re-write titles and listings right before BFCM ( original story here ).

The AI was making modifications, and then giving sellers notice of their suggestions and giving them a chance to review before making changes live.

Now Amazon waiting for permission has stopped. AI is making changes to listings at will and publishing them live without telling sellers, causing sales to plummet for most affected listings.

In some cases, the AI changes can even cause the listing to be non-compliant (such as adding medical keywords or claims), which results in another Amazon bot shutting down or suspending the listing.

But it gets worse. Because Amazon themselves made the changes, they have the highest authority contribution (i.e. God level) on the listing. Which means you as a seller cannot easily change it back.

Billion Dollar Dream 100 member Amy Wees of Amazing at Home says a seller she knows has had 10 of his 110 listings completely turned upside down by Amazon rewriting them using AI.

Amy says the way they have discovered to fix it, after some trial and error, is to open a case with Brand Support (you must be brand registered to reach them) and not with regular Seller Support.

Tell them AI has modified your listing without permission and you would like it changed back. But more specifically Amy says, you need to tell them you as the brand need to be shown as the “lead contributor” on the listing, making sure Amazon is no longer the lead contributor.

Also go ahead and let brand support know the title under 150 characters you want it to be changed to. You will likely get an email saying you need to delete the listing and re-upload it with a flat file after 24 hours to reset. This may not be necessary. If you follow the procedure above, Amazon should change it back.

OPT OUT: Luckily for all of us, Jason McClellan found a way to opt out of Amazon’s automatic AI rewriting program, as he demonstrates below.

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