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2 days ago
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Boats Group Launches AI-Powered Listing Builder to Help Dealers and Brokers Save Time and Create Smarter Listings
MIAMI, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Boats Group, the tech company behind the marine industry's leading digital marketplaces—including YachtWorld, Boat Trader, and announced the launch of its new AI-Powered Listing Builder. This innovative tool is designed to help dealers, brokers, and OEMs streamline the listing process and publish optimized, professional descriptions in a fraction of the time. As AI continues to gain momentum across industries, Boats Group is taking a deliberate, practical approach, focused on building tools that solve real-world problems. Unlike companies simply racing to market with AI-labeled features, Boats Group's focus is not on automation for its own sake, but on building smarter, more intuitive digital experiences that help customers succeed. The AI Listing Builder was developed in close collaboration with customers to ensure it meets the needs of professionals who rely on accurate, engaging listings to drive inquiries and sales. "There's a lot of noise right now around AI, but not all tools are created with the end user in mind," said Mike Grabowski, Chief Product Officer at Boats Group. "We believe AI should enhance—not replace—the relationships we've built with our customers. Listing Builder reflects that thinking. It helps our partners work more efficiently while maintaining the quality buyers expect." Now available across Boats Group's marketplaces, the AI Listing Builder uses structured boat data to generate clear, consistent, and SEO-friendly listing descriptions, reducing the time spent on writing and editing by up to 70%. The tool ensures that each listing highlights the right details, improving both discoverability and the user experience for online shoppers. "Creating a great listing used to be a time-consuming task," said John Barrile, Chief Technology Officer at Boats Group. "AI Listing Builder gets our customers from draft to publish faster, with content that performs better and requires fewer edits." The release of AI Listing Builder is part of a broader AI strategy at Boats Group, one focused on building smart, user-friendly tools that reflect how boats are actually sold online. By leveraging its industry-leading volume of inventory, search data, and user behavior insights, Boats Group is uniquely positioned to develop AI features that provide immediate value. "We're not experimenting—we're investing in proven AI that works," said Grabowski. "We're committed to building more of these intelligent tools, with even more features coming soon." For more information about AI Listing Builder and Boats Group's investment in AI, visit About Boats Group Boats Group operates the world's most trusted and widely used online marketplaces for buying and selling boats, including Boat Trader, YachtWorld, and For over 30 years, Boats Group has led the marine industry's transformation, consistently setting the standard for how boats are discovered, marketed, and sold online. Today, the company reaches more than 200 million boat shoppers annually and is powering the next generation of recreational boating commerce with AI-enabled tools, data-driven marketing solutions, financing services, and actionable insights. Backed by the largest inventory and audience in the industry, Boats Group helps OEMs, dealers, and brokers grow their business and connect with buyers more efficiently than any other source. Media Contact: Courtney ChalmersVP of Marketing, Boats GroupEmail: press@ 1-877-354-4069 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Boats Group, LLC
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that's not quite true
People say they prefer a short story written by a human over one composed by artificial intelligence, yet most still invest the same amount of time and money reading both stories regardless of whether it is labeled as AI-generated. That was the main finding of a study we conducted recently to test whether this preference of humans over AI in creative works actually translates into consumer behavior. Amid the coming avalanche of AI-generated work, it is a question of real livelihoods for the millions of people worldwide employed in creative industries. To investigate, we asked OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 to generate a short story in the style of the critically acclaimed fiction author Jason Brown. We then recruited a nationally representative sample of over 650 people and offered participants US$3.50 to read and assess the AI-generated story. Crucially, only half the participants were told that the story was written by AI, while the other half was misled into believing it was the work of Jason Brown. After reading the first half of the AI-generated story, participants were asked to rate the quality of the work along various dimensions, such as whether they found it predictable, emotionally engaging, evocative and so on. We also measured participants' willingness to pay in order to read to the end of the story in two ways: how much of their study compensation they'd be willing to give up, and how much time they'd agree to spend transcribing some text we gave them. So, were there differences between the two groups? The short answer: yes. But a closer analysis reveals some startling results. To begin with, the group that knew the story was AI-generated had a much more negative assessment of the work, rating it more harshly on dimensions like predictability, authenticity and how evocative it is. These results are largely in keeping with a nascent but growing body of research that shows bias against AI in areas like visual art, music and poetry. Nonetheless, participants were ready to spend the same amount of money and time to finish reading the story whether or not it was labeled as AI. Participants also did not spend less time on average actually reading the AI-labeled story. When asked afterward, almost 40% of participants said they would have paid less if the same story was written by AI versus a human, highlighting that many are not aware of the discrepancies between their subjective assessments and actual choices. Our findings challenge past studies showing people favor human-produced works over AI-generated ones. At the very least, this research doesn't appear to be a reliable indicator of people's willingness to pay for human-created art. The potential implications for the future of human-created work are profound, especially in market conditions in which AI-generated work can be orders of magnitude cheaper to produce. Even though artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, AI-made books are already flooding the market, recently prompting the authors guild to instate its own labeling guidelines. Our research raises questions whether these labels are effective in stemming the tide. Attitudes toward AI are still forming. Future research could investigate whether there will be a backlash against AI-generated creative works, especially if people witness mass layoffs. After all, similar shifts occurred in the wake of mass industrialization, such as the arts and crafts movement in the late 19th century, which emerged as a response to the growing automation of labor. A related question is whether the market will segment, where some consumers will be willing to pay more based on the process of creation, while others may be interested only in the product. Regardless of how these scenarios play out, our findings indicate that the road ahead for human creative labor might be more uphill than previous research suggested. At the very least, while consumers may hold beliefs about the intrinsic value of human labor, many seem unwilling to put their money where their beliefs are. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization bringing you facts and trustworthy analysis to help you make sense of our complex world. It was written by: Martin Abel, Bowdoin College and Reed Johnson, Bowdoin College Read more: Writing instructors are less afraid of students cheating with ChatGPT than you might think How ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves Your next favorite story won't be written by AI – but it could be someday The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
