• Zalando management outlined a wider rollout of AI in content production to speed trend response to a few days, targeting under 24 hours.
• Matthias Haase said AI will support more localized marketing assets to improve relevance across markets, aiming to lift engagement and conversion.
• Haase said AI-generated content must keep product attributes accurate, warning models can invent details that could mislead shoppers.
• The group is building a “product truth” engine to automatically compare AI assets with original imagery, flagging deviations for correction.
• Zalando plans to apply EU AI Act transparency rules by use case, limiting visible labels to higher-risk content to avoid “label fatigue.”

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