Do AI product photos work?

For backgrounds and staging, yes. For the product itself, not yet — generated product images still read as generated to a customer more often than the people making them believe.

The reasoning

There is also a returns cost. A photograph that flatters a product beyond what arrives produces a sale and a return, and the return is the expensive half. Use it for the scene and photograph the item.

What most people get wrong

AI is good at the volume work — descriptions, alt text, replies to the same question. It is poor at deciding what to sell.

Generated product photography still reads as generated to a customer more often than the people making it believe.

A recommendation engine needs enough purchase history to have anything to recommend. Below a few thousand orders it is guessing.

How an app changes it

The practical consequence for a store: what an assistant can read about you decides whether it recommends you. Plain, checkable facts beat marketing copy.