FYI, eBay got back to me today and as sellers probably noticed, they removed this feature from listings. It was not meant to be rolled out w/o sellers having the control to turn the feature off or report inaccurate text. So it may be rolled out again, but sellers will have more control over what appears, so no need to append a disclaimer to one’s GS listing template’s footer. 
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What nonsense!
You make it sound like this was some type of technical glitch. eBay would have you believe that mice got into eBay’s multiple server locations, chewed thrown some cables, causing a short that somehow modified the hardware and software to launch this b.s.
It was not.
Multiple people had sit down and write computer code, test it prior to launch, then launch - after of course going through multiple layers of eBay.
Already a disclaimer the day I saw it because eBay is not to be trusted at all!
How did eBay respond to this when I wasted time bothering to contact them?
They said I should remove the content form the description that was being picked up by the AI. That would mean listing parts, without the ability to list the machine that the parts fit. In any case the AI would simply randomly pick other out-of-context information and insert where is does not belong.
This is exactly what eBay does for all buyers of mobile devices, who don’t get to see the full description by default. Instead they see a bunch of random sentences taken form the listing. eBay even grabs text from my TOS and inserts it into the mobile default description. This makes my listing look 100% unprofessional as the text sounds like a bunch gibberish than no buyer is going to click to see the full description. And why is eBay doing this? to show the buyer MORE ADS FOR OTHER ITEMS!
eBay management has ZERO CARE about its users!
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