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Left is the picture from the posting, right is google street view.

This shit really ruins everything, luckily it's bad enough in this case to easily spot. AI gibberish on the sign, no small balcony in front, rock wall next to the street missing, pretty mountain in the background that doesn't exist, weird blue pole.

I hate how this turns the whole internet adversarial, even more so than it already was. You really need to double- and triple-check everything and trust nothing, unless you want to turn up some place and get let down. I really don't understand what drives people to do something like this. And I don't know how this can go any other way than the internet just becoming completely useless.

Bonus pics from inside:

Note how the lamp seems to have grown more leaves in between shots, and how the fireplace door wraps around the corner in one picture, but not in the other, as well as lacking any handle to open it.

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow I knew they were virtually staging houses for sale, which I thought was fine until I realized the process doesn't just add furniture, it also cleans up imperfections in the house.

AI photos for a short term rental seems like fraud by default

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The imperfections aren't as much the issue as the scaling. There was a thread at some point where someone asked how hard it would be to diy their bathroom after getting an AI suggestion. The problem with it was that AI essentially took a tiny room and scaled down everything to make it look big. For the generated picture to make sense the toilet and sink would have to be comically small but because every detail was scaled down it wasn't noticeable to the OP until others pointed it out and they could only point it out because of the before-picture.

If you look at an AI house listing they often have a very clean minimalist design but the size doesn't check out.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah... Its also hard to know scale if you are looking at a picture of bare walls but yeah tiny furniture doesn't help.

Also the fish-eye lenses they use don't help