Web/Marketplace Features

Please add a required bool while creating a Marketplace listing that asks the creator to disclose if AI generative tools were used in part/all of the products creation. Add this bool to the 'Do Not Show' section of the Marketplace search filter. Allow listings to be reported if they do not honestly disclose this. ---- For the health of the market we need the use of AI tools to be disclosed by creators. I would prefer personally that no AI generation be supported. I understand that tolorance of it is an effort to avoid censorships slippery slope, and is complicated by the sheer variation of AI tools that currently exist. But regardless of opinions or complications, it's existance cannot be ignored. So lets focus on what can be done, by giving some power of choice to the consumer instead. Users should be provided a way to choose products with or without AI generation while shopping, and naturally creators who choose not to disclose or to lie should face the same reportability and moderation as any other creator that would choose to lie while listing. The moderation half of this should not necessarily focus on trying to prove the use of AI gen tools, it doesn't actually need to. Creators who have done the work to provide support and actually prepare the AI generated content for its use in SL are unlikely to warrent being reported, and should not need to lie about the useage anyway. It is products that blatantly lack support, have egregious LOD & LI values that would be inclined to lie, and would want to be reported by users, this is the same for ANY product currently listed. If you buy it, and you don't get what was described, it should be reportable, the same goes for AI generated products, AI generated should not get a pass because you have to 'prove' something first, when the fact remains that you didn't get what thought you bought. So do not focus on "did you use a tool?" focus on "can you fix & support the product?" If it can't be supported, then disclose it was made via AI generation and move on. This is a similar complication to full perm and gacha resales, but also ripped models, copybot etc, in they will all lack support due to not being made directly by the creator of the listing. There is a big difference between fullperm & gacha resale vs ripping & botting, and that difference is honest disclosure.

WE NEED TO TALK. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO SECOND LIFE MARKETPLACE? At what point does creative advertising become outright misrepresentation? Linden Lab - please, I am begging you on TWO bended knees - step in and say enough is enough. Because looking at the current state of Second Life Marketplace, I am very concerned and quite shocked. AI-generated promotional imagery is becoming an increasingly concerning problem, both on Marketplace and in vendor displays in-world. I'm not talking about someone using AI to make a nice background, improve a layout, or create an attractive advertisement. I'm talking about sellers presenting products with spectacular, highly manipulated imagery that bears little resemblance to what the customer actually receives. Look at some of these Marketplace listings. Elaborate, cinematic images featuring extraordinary effects, vivid lighting, incredible particles, and visual presentations that look like they belong in a multimillion-dollar video game. Then look at the prices. L$1,800. L$4,800. Nearly L$5,000 for some of these scripts and effects. Now imagine being a NEW resident. You've just joined Second Life. You're excited about this incredible virtual world. You've spent actual money purchasing Linden dollars, and you come across an advertisement promising an amazing particle effect. You spend L$1,800 expecting something resembling the advertisement. Instead, imagine opening the product and getting what one reviewer described as a bunch of ugly brown squares floating a few meters away from a prim. Congratulations! You paid for a cinematic sandstorm and received a farting brown cloud. How is that supposed to inspire confidence? How does that encourage new residents to stay, spend money, explore, and support the creator economy? And while we're at it, we MUST talk about the repackaging and resale of products that have been freely distributed around the grid. Just because an item is transferable, copyable, or distributed freely does NOT automatically mean someone has the creator's authorization to resell it commercially. Some of these products have circulated in Second Life for years. Yet there they are, appearing in Marketplace listings with flashy promotional graphics and substantial price tags. We must take unauthorized resale seriously, investigate credible reports, and protect original creators. I suggest a new flagging category be created to specifically address these instances - and trust me as I paged through MP today and the last few days, there is a swamp of products. Hundreds at the very least. That should concern everyone. Linden Lab, here's what I'd like to see, please! <3 Require authentic in-world product imagery. Marketplace listings should include at least one clear, unaltered screenshot or video showing the actual product functioning inside Second Life. Require disclosure of AI-generated or substantially AI-altered promotional imagery. AI artwork can be a creative marketing tool, but customers deserve to know when an image is illustrative rather than representative. Enforce stricter/updated standards against misleading advertising. Sellers should not be allowed to promise visual effects, features, or functionality their products demonstrably cannot deliver. Strengthen/update protections against unauthorized resale. Investigate credible reports of intellectual property violations and establish meaningful consequences for offenders. I'm not asking Linden Lab to police creativity. I'm asking Linden Lab to protect it. It benefits everyone <3 And this extends well beyond particle effects. We're seeing increasingly questionable advertising across clothing, avatar accessories, HUDs, scripted experiences, and countless other Marketplace categories. I've been around Second Life long enough to remember when browsing Marketplace meant you could generally get a reasonable idea of what you were purchasing from the product photographs. Are we really approaching a point where we're going to miss those days? With utmost respect for LL and all the team does, Liam Puppy

As the title suggests I'd love an ability to hide/block certain creators and their items from showing in my search/feed. I don't wanna see poopy butts, diapers, pissplay or whatever its called, animal genitalia. Don't wanna see children oriented items and their stores. Sometimes i wish i can filter out a creator that spammed 4-5 pages of the same item just different colors when looking for something new. I wish when searching for "Butt tattoo" i could block an item/store that showed me the entire lowerbody of a human being covered in excrement. Please for the love of God consider that quality of life change.

For a few days now, both I and several of my friends have been unable to upload snaphots to the profile feed, only the words "you have 3 snapshots in process" remain

Every day I watch the "complete avatars" category on the marketplace Every day there's 5 new avatars, all game model rips, generated image ads, generated 3D model avatars, or a swath of wrongly categorized low effort AI content. There's a few small number of users uploading a massive amount of marketplace listing, all mass uploaded game rips, or generated avatars, so much so, that it completely overshadows any genuinely created user content. I used to look forward to seeing artistic creations, or originality, inventiveness and ingenuity. Now all I see is 100 low effort avatars, and 1 genuine avatar rarely posted once a month. Why would this suggestion help? 1.) Lowers mass storage of irrelevant content 2.) Creates relevance, and helps with the tagging system as a whole, enriching user interaction with the marketplace as a whole 3.) Allows for more creative content with worth and depth. I know there has been a few posts on this already, but quickly the marketplace has become the last place people are wanting to look when purchasing things from other users; it lowers profit, it lowers worth, it lowers desire to even use the platform. more and more people are choosing to only go to events instead of even looking at the marketplace. its quickly becoming almost useless for its intended purpose, if everything on there is just 1000 bland badly rigged fortnite avatars, game imports or randomly generated AI characters, again badly rigged. Quality over quantity, any day, please.

So going into this, I want to disclaim that I myself am not against AI. I personally have used it before, and will do so in the future. A specific chat AI helps me regularly with solving problems. However, I am against people intentionally misleading people about content, and polluting search results with content made in mere seconds, and find it no different than spam. If I made something that randomly generated randomly colored squares on a white canvas, and listed it a dozen or so times, it'd be seen as spam. Additionally, this issue was brought up in the SL Discord marketplace chat. I've moved it here so that it can get more recognition and visibility to LL. Personally, I believe that a policy worded like so would benefit everyone in the long run (canny has messed up some formatting here, so it looks like it has no line breaks, these have been substituted with "---" for readability) Content that is the sole generation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or otherwise Generative Content, except in the cases where the generator was written for the sole purpose of generating a specific element, may not be listed on the Marketplace as-is or as the focal point of the content that is listed. --- AI images must never be used to generate listing images, and must be presented as the content appears in SL. Overlays, such as permission information, price, branding labels, or sales labels, are permitted as much so as they do not mis-represent the content that is being advertised. --- Examples of forbidden listings: * In singular or collection, AI generated content as a texture, image, mesh, sound or other type of asset, as the sole content being listed. * A AI generated image in a picture frame. * A museum prefab filled with AI generated images as a "ready to go" model. * A object that plays randomly generated AI voice clips. * Attempting to pass off or mislead people that AI generated content as original, hand crafted content. * A listing which shows a AI enhanced product preview. --- Examples of allowed listings: * A house that has a AI generated poster in it, where the poster is not the selling point of the house. * A museum model that has some AI generated images, or is focused on the topic of AI generated content. * A NPC, that among other features, plays AI generated voice clips. * A model that has AI generated textures, where the model is not AI generated. --- Listings that make use of 50% or more in it's creation must be clearly labeled as using AI generation or assistance in the listing description. Interpretation of what counts as "50% or more is" left solely to Linden Lab. Listings that use AI but under the 50% threshold are recommended, but not required, to disclose that AI is used in some capacity. In summary, it forbids listing of content on the marketplace, free or for sale, that is entirely AI generated, requires disclosure of AI generated content when AI does a majority of the work, and guards against some loopholes. This probably (as in, very likely. I feel this is implied, but just in case) isn't needed, but: Because this will probably get passed by the lawyers, I hereby grant all permission to Linden Lab to use or transform the above work in any way, without attribution or compensation. Linden Lab has the opportunity to deal with this now before it gets too out of control. Only a handful of residents would be in violation of this policy. This also only applies to marketplace stuff, not in-world content.

Many creators rely on a completely separate listing for a different color, pack (fatpack, browns, blacks, etc.). This makes searching for clothes, hairs, etc. much more difficult as many of the search results are a variation of the same item. I’d also like to see existing color and variation listings automatically merged into a single listing. This would help reduce clutter in search results and make it easier to find the right product. These could be underneath the product pictures in a horizontal list of thumbnails that includes the color/variation name, and that variants price.

Some time ago I've thought about how the marketplace could benefit some quick wins that should be fast to implement to improve how the product are shown to the user. This doesn't affect any backend features, these are just frontend edits. The attached picture includes some commentary.

Are reviewable on the market place. Wether that is through linking an inworld bought item to a product on MP or not Many stores (in particilair avatar creation stores) price the MP prices accordingly often paying 10% more on market place then in world. Some of these avatars are buggy. Authors should fix these, but without meaningfull review possibillity to motivate them to do so, works the opposite. Some of these avatars costs 3000 in world but 3300+ on market place. If I am not able to review an item, then I am not able to warn other users of broken feature. In addition this could also help with re-delivers just incase said store goes away in world. p.s I dont know if this is the irght place to post this. I barely post here

Recent changes were made to benefit those using SL Marketplace with mobile phones in portrait mode. But Second Life is still largely used by a majority of desktop computer users and the SL Marketplace should mirror that too. The recent changes have negatively affected the way SL Marketplace now appears on desktop computer screens, with two-thirds of a desktop screen now having wide empty side borders which are left unused and wasted. Please introduce a Desktop Screen Mode option to SL Marketplace, allowing the entire width of a desktop monitor screen to be utilised, with a wide variety of screen size options too, just as the SL Viewer already has. Attached are images of how SL Marketplace currently appears on a Desktop PC Windows 11 (16:9 screen, 1920x1080) and how I would improve SL Marketplace's UI to allow the full width of a screen to be utilised, with a "Screen Size" option button added.