Is Etsy Legit? AI Image Detector & Dropshipping Checker

Is that Etsy listing legit? Get a trust score on every page. Spot AI art, fake handmade, and AliExpress dropshipping.

Is that Etsy listing legit? Or is the "handmade" item AI-generated art — or just dropshipped from AliExpress at 10x the price? HandmadeCheck is an AI image detector and dropshipping checker built specifically for Etsy: every listing gets a trust score in real time, so you can shop the way you wanted to — actually buying handmade. WHAT WE DETECT • AI-generated images — Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, generative art on listings labeled "handmade" • Dropshipping — products quietly resold from AliExpress, Temu, Shein, Alibaba, often at 5-10x markup • Fake handmade — listings whose seller patterns, descriptions, or photos do not add up • Visual matches — the same product photo appearing on a Chinese marketplace • Reused stock photography presented as original artisan work KEY FEATURES • Automatic trust score badge on every Etsy listing card and product page • 30+ on-page signals across 5 axes: text, seller, image, structured data, cross-platform • Perceptual hash + CLIP image matching against an indexed AliExpress and Temu catalog • On-device AI art detector via Chrome Prompt API — your data never leaves the browser • One-click signal breakdown: see exactly why a listing scored what it did • Inline preview of the AliExpress or Temu source listing whenever a match is found • No account required, no per-listing limits, no paywall IS ETSY LEGIT? IS ETSY SAFE? Etsy itself is real, but every marketplace gets a layer of resellers and AI-generated knockoffs sitting next to genuine artisans. The hard part is telling them apart at a glance. HandmadeCheck does that work for you: a green badge means signals look clean, yellow means worth a second look, red means strong evidence the listing is not what it claims to be. HOW THE TRUST SCORE WORKS HandmadeCheck combines 30+ signals into a single 0-100 score, color-coded green/yellow/red. Each signal carries its own evidence — you see what the extension saw and why it counted. The score uses peak-axis aggregation: a single strong signal (say, a 92% visual match against a known AliExpress product) pulls the score down even if the rest of the listing looks clean. Aggregation runs locally via Chrome Prompt API where available; the extension falls back to a cloud LLM only when on-device AI is unavailable. CROSS-PLATFORM IMAGE MATCHING We maintain an indexed catalog of AliExpress and Temu products and reverse-image-search every listing against it. Two engines run in parallel: • Perceptual hash (pHash) — catches exact reuploads, even after resize or recompression • CLIP visual embedding — catches near-duplicates: same product, slightly different angle or lighting If your "handcrafted" listing turns out to be a $4 AliExpress drop-ship, you will see the source listing inline. WHO IT'S FOR Shoppers tired of overpaying for fake handmade. Gift buyers who want to support actual artisans. Art collectors verifying that a print is genuinely original. Anyone who has typed "is Etsy legit" or "is Etsy safe to buy from" into a search bar. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install HandmadeCheck 2. Browse etsy.com normally 3. See colored trust badges on every listing 4. Click a badge for the full signal-by-signal breakdown No login. No personal data collection. Works alongside any other Etsy extension. WHY HANDMADECHECK • The only Etsy-specific AI and dropshipping detector with cross-platform image matching • 30+ signals — most AI image detectors run one or two and call it a day • Privacy-first: signal scoring happens on-device wherever the browser allows • Real-time matching against a fresh AliExpress and Temu catalog, not a stale dump TECHNICAL NOTES • Manifest V3, on-device LLM via Chrome Prompt API where available • Active on etsy.com (scoring) • Only the listing URL and signal scores are sent for cloud aggregation • All 30+ signals are explainable; nothing is a black-box vibes-check A NOTE ON ACCURACY HandmadeCheck gives you signals and a score, not a verdict. We do not label a listing "fake" — we report what we observed and how strong the evidence is. The final decision is yours. Some genuine artisans may score lower because of how their pages render, and some skilled fakes may score higher than the signals suggest. Use the breakdown, trust your judgement, support real makers.