Web/Marketplace Features

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.

Listings of available Linden Homes could offer the ability to filter for a given parcel size or theme, or both. This would reduce the users' workload to discover if the parcel they want is available, and would reduce load on the web server since users could find the information they want by loading just one web pages instead of paging through three. For instance, if Joe is only interested in a 2048 Copperfield (a popular notion right now), he won't be paging back and forth among a bazillion other listings to find out if one is available.

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.

When browsing products on the Marketplace overview pages, it is not immediately clear what type of product is being shown. The preview image alone is often not sufficient to determine whether the item is clothing, an animation, a tattoo, a shape, or another product type. Users must either already know the brand or rely on visual hints in the image. In many cases there is no clear indication, which forces users to open each product page individually just to identify the product type. This slows down browsing and reduces usability. It would significantly improve clarity and browsing efficiency if the primary product category were displayed directly below the product image in the overview grid. Kind regards Dae

Let's invent a label - something simple, like "GenAI was used in whole or part in this object's manufacture" and then /require/ creators/vendors to label all of their relevant sales items with it. Let this label also be a tag or flag as part of an object's or sales vendor's properties, so that Residents don't have to struggle to know if an object is GenAI-"containing." Let this also be a tag or flag on the MP and in any other searchable interface where it makes sense to exist, so that Residents may include or exclude GenAI items in their search results. GenAI is not going anywhere. The ethics of its use are a separate matter. But Residents have a right to be informed of the tool's use in the creation of their purchased items, just as we have a right to know whether a food IRL has been genetically modified. Let Residents be advised of the use of GenAI to create purchasable goods, and thereby purchase according to their own preference. Please disregard, and accept my apology, if this issue has already been discussed/addressed. Thank you.

I'd like to see a creation date of items shown in the marketplace and the ability to search by year created.

Hi I would like to suggest a feature for the Second Life Marketplace: a filter for offensive or abusive language in reviews and comments. Currently, creators can receive reviews that include insults, harassment, or personal attacks, which can harm their reputation and create unnecessary conflict. A system to automatically flag, block, or hold for moderation reviews containing certain offensive words or expressions would help maintain a safer and more professional environment for both creators and customers. Features could include: Automatic detection of offensive or harassing words in reviews. Option for creators to review flagged comments before they appear publicly. A way to maintain legitimate feedback while preventing abuse or trolling. This would protect creators from unfair attacks, improve the quality of Marketplace interactions, and ensure that reviews reflect genuine customer experiences rather than being used as a tool for harassment. Thank you for considering this improvement to the Marketplace system.

The problem Complex projects and products have always resorted to external servers under the control of the specific designer/creator who made that product. This always carried a risk in the case of the designer going out of business, or the external server being compromised or data being leaked. This would result at least in a disruption of service, or ultimately in a paid-for product not working anymore, In the past, using a setup like this required skill and experience, leading to the educated assumption that the off-world servers would be professionally maintained and secured. A prominent example would be CasperVend. Fast-forward to 2026, where LLM's give laypeople the tools to set up complex client server solutions, connecting LLM generated LSL scripts with LLM generated off-world server scripts. It's a sad truth, that those projects often lack basic cybersecurity and scalability, redundancy, graceful degradation, can leak data, or can incur sudden - often dramatic - cost spikes on their creators. The result is, that as fast as those products land on the Marketplace, as fast they become inoperable and a customer is left with the SL-side of such a product, and a non-functioning off-world server, rendering their legitimate purchase useless. The scenario Imagine you buy an item like a new body, high-priced, 5k range. Something you'd never think it would require an external server. Imagine the body-creator however uses external servers for statistics, access control, marketing or assets for a HUD. Imagine the server of the creator goes down, or the creator goes out of business. The result: Your purchase is not usable anymore, you have a 5k L$ pile of trash. The solution I suggest a mandatory field for (new / updated) Marketplace listings, where the creator has to declare whether they use off-world components for their products or not. That way, a potential customer can decide for themselves if they trust the creator's expertise enough to believe their product will still work in a year or 5 years, or if they rather not take the risk. Customers in SL expect to buy-to-own, and not to hidden-subscribe to products. Risk / benefit analysis I am aware that this is hard to police, and that it WILL be abused (i.e. false assurance will be given). In case of conflict, it would be easy for the Lab to check any given product for off-world http-connections, and if a creator has given a false assurance, this can be dealt with. Any creator serious about cybersecurity, privacy, scalability and reliability can state so in their product description and/or the "Profile" part of their Marketplace store. Ultimately, the customers win and get enabled to make their own decisions.

It would be amazing to be able to block a store's content from showing in Marketplace. Instead of adding a store as a favorite you could click to add store to a blocked list and then their content would no longer show in your search results.

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.