I would love it if the Fab Marketplace were to have an ‘ignore asset type’ filter to allow you to remove asset types from appearing on the marketplace in a similar way to being able to block AI content.
At present there are a huge number of audio assets that seem to get uploaded in bulk (I’m assuming by the quantity and style that they use AI but do not get filtered when AI content is disabled).
Either that or limit the number of individual assets that can be uploaded in one go, so that you don’t see dozens of audio fodder from one seller in one go. Half of the time I give up scrolling through the new assets due to all of these audio assets.
Not only are they frustrating but they bury other genuine content, which surely hurts sales to other sellers.
I have been talking about this and all other issues with the UE Marketplace/Fab for around 8 months now - nobody cares.
I have completely lost my motivation to browse the marketplace as a buyer, and lost my sales as a small seller. So I built my own marketplace which includes every feature Fab misses (and some extra other features). I’m currently working on legal and tax related documents before I can go live, as the marketplace itself is ready.
All AI content should go under a separate section named “AI” and filtered off by default in the search tab. It’s ridiculous that genuine content creators have to share the same space with this auto-created junk.
Did he marked the content as AI? If not, you should report him. As a Music/Sound Effects seller, this also hurts me. My packs are buried on SFX/Music Category;
This particular seller is not marking their content as AI, and I have no way of proving that it is AI.
If I look at the marketplace now with ‘AI assets’ turned off, I count the following:
3 assets by different sellers
The next 35 are from this audio asset seller
1 asset from a different seller
The next 22 assets are from this audio asset seller
2 assets by different sellers
The next 22 assets are that same audio asset seller
1 asset from another seller
The next 31 assets are from that same audio asset seller….at this point I gave up counting/scrolling.
Discoverability is what makes or breaks a seller’s experience on a marketplace, and Epic allowing sellers to do this is not doing their sales numbers any favours.
I don’t really want to report this person just in case they are a legitimate seller pumping out non AI content, but a way to filter this out or restrict the number of uploads in one go is needed.
I came here to make almost exactly the same post. It’s absurd. I feel like this could be solved by limiting the number of times a person can upload something to sell on the marketplace to once a day. It would solve a lot of problems, while having zero impact on sellers that put time and effort into their products.