this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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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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[–] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like they used AI specifically to upscale the original images, or get a different angle, or remove something they didn’t like in the original image.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if it were upscaled, it wouldn’t:

  • remove the balcony
  • remove the stone wall next to the path
  • add the mountain in the background
  • add a completely wrong shadow for the bus stop

they’re all just straight up fabrications… i’d guess it was a “like this” or “in the style of” request with reference photos

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

If you use a tool that generates AI images instead of one that just does upscaling to do upscaling then I'd expect this.