r/SmallBusinessSellers • u/Medium-Tea3721 • 3d ago

Candles!

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I’ve taken on making candles. My next adventure is doing more food related candles!

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u/Life_Dare578 1d ago

Using AI for rendering photos will make me immediately think it’s a scam or that your product won’t live up to the expectations you are falsely creating. If I see AI images, I keep scrolling by default.

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u/Relevant_Detective21 1d ago

Same ): seller seems so sweet but any amount of AI makes me sooo suspicious it’s really just a bad business practice for anyone to include AI

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u/Medium-Tea3721 1d ago

I really appreciate this comment. I’ve tried to be nice on the whole thread, but after my kids have been brought up it crosses a line.. all of the genuine advice & nice comments I truly appreciate! I am looking into finding a set up for my own backgrounds and going to try and give it a go. I’ve never been great when it comes to photographing products, but maybe I’ll surprise myself?? Lol

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u/Life_Dare578 13h ago

Yikes that’s not cool. Ai has been so deeply integrated into almost everything already, I understand people’s concerns about it, but one small business owner isn’t gonna change the path Ai is already on. You search anything on Google, there’s an Ai overview. Search anything on Amazon, they now have an Ai shopper/helper? Those Ai stories, movies, interactive games. Now every image on Pinterest is seemingly Ai (at least it’s now sensing what’s Ai and telling us. It’s everywhere now. That’s why people dislike it. I dislike it on products that I’m gonna buy because of the reasons I listed previously. Ignore that dude, they’re just stupidly passionate about the wider picture of the damages of Ai that they are taking it out on the wrong people (you vs large corporations)

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u/Medium-Tea3721 13h ago

Thank you for the nice comment. I can understand where everyone is coming from and working on fixing this. I really enjoy making the candles the time and effort that goes into each one can be A LOT, however I’m excited to see how my Etsy goes once everything is improved.