Been seeing AI interior designs and then flip to the next image of the empty room with no touched and it clearly wouldn’t fit half of the furniture AI put in
We stayed at an Airbnb that had pictures which included furniture that wasn’t there, and a rainfall shower that didn’t exist. It’s false advertising. It’s lying. It’s horseshit.
This is so goddamn infuriating because I'm trying to design a tiny house but for the life of me, I dont have the spatial awareness to know what's gonna fit where and how.
I've seen some pretty cool layouts but when I try to measure it out in my head, I'm stuck wondering if the bathroom is gonna fit and if the fridge is smaller than the shower.
AI makes envisioning it 10 times harder and the slop is becoming rampant on YouTube.
They have AI labels on YouTube videos now, but I don’t think that’s enough. You should not be allowed to use AI for real estate photos. It’s bad enough they use it for touch ups.
They need to implement something legal to combat this like if your picture doesn't match the actual house now the realtor is on the hook to spend every penny to make it 1:1 with the picture. Idk what could happen if they didn't comply but I feel like that would be good
EU is bringing those laws, they demand AI enhanced, added content and etc. watermarks. Seeing those tags in a real estate will be instant "nope" from any buyer. They have official watermarks, hope they become global. Not because they happen to be EU but because it is better for everyone if those tags/watermarks are the same everywhere.
I’m not even upset that they’re using AI to embellish the photos. But perhaps put it at the end of the photo archive tagged as “inspiration” or something.
The big issue for me is that these photos are often the primary thumbnail photo used for clickbait. That, in my opinion, should not be allowed.
At least around me, the agents are also posting the originals alongside the modified ones. They mislead to get the clicks, but if you look through all the photos you can see what it really looks like. But it’s getting out of hand.
Ban it and give fines enough for it to be a real hit to ther business.. real estate agents have got a free run at everything for too long and need to be kicked up the ass with regulations and fines. FIne too big that it will shut down the realtors business? bad luck, you did the crime, pay the fine.
Really, the problem with all this AI bullshit is that nobody is actually penalizing the behaviour that we already have laws that can and will apply to. I’m figuring it’s because some people are profiting/being paid handsomely to look the other way.
some? I'm actively looking for properties in Atlanta right now and I see multiples daily. Ai interiors, one had an ai pool and landscaping most have an asterisk somewhere saying something like "what this could look like". Annoying and shitty
If they say they are using AI, fine, I could let it slide, especially if they want to give you an idea of what the place could look like BUT you also have to provide the ACTUAL photos.
It's AI uses like these that make me glad I will only ever be able to afford a cardboard box to live in. At least I will know what I'm getting when I pull it out of the dumpster.
Ive been looking for houses and one had an AI rendition of a yard where it added an in ground pool, deck, pergola, grass, and a mini kids soccer field setup. Next photo was the real yard and it was straight up dirt.
They were looking for a retirement spot, with his elderly parents and his downs sister… a total shit show that that had their deems on . So totally fuck the ppl who show AI crap. If I say more the FBI will be looking at me much more than they do today.
I'm currently looking for a home (not US) and they include AI pictures, but alongside it they include the actual picture used to create the AI one. That's how it should always be done.
I'd rather they didn't use any AI, but if they are going to, they should be honest about it. Also tag the image with an "AI generated" warning.
Yeah I get the ai staging interiors if the unit is empty whatever. But this here is unacceptable, you see it and you expect it to come with decent garden, albeit not very usable but lots of curb appeal. It's not even 'what it could potentially look like'
I don't mind listings where the first has a picture of the room completely empty, then a 2nd picture with furniture and somewhat large text on the bottom saying it was created with AI.
I think that's an acceptable way to use AI in a real estate listing.
I recently saw a property nearby on realtor that was for some reason listed as “water view” (not even close) and had an AI pool, but if you were paying attention you might notice that the space is also shown sans pool. Would this count as a violation?
This ain’t even close too. Photographers can work a little magic with angles and lighting but there are actual physical elements here that are different.
House hunting is stressful enough, we don't need the added trauma of falling in love with a house based on the photos and set up a viewing, only to pull up to it and realize that it's a tiny POS.
We're closing on a house in a couple of weeks where the selling agent definitely abused the wide-angle lens, but at least they didn't use any AI crap to hide the defects. It's a very old house at a reasonable price point so if it looked pristine online we would've been EXTREMELY suspicious.
Oh that's bad, they've added 5m of front yard too!
When we sold our house years ago, we had tiger tails on the electrical wires coming into our house. They said they had to delay the pics until the tails were removed as it was illegal to remove power lines from real estate photos. Seems that's no longer a thing at all!
Power line removal is still against just about all MLS rules - the reasoning is it's not within the purview of the buyer. The thing is, depending on the MLS, a lot of the AI edits shown here might actually be okay - the line they draw is whether or not the features being edited are within the control of the buyer to potentially do. I have a long ass comment from yesterday, in this sub, with sources, linking all the rules and such for the Bright MLS ecosystem
Whoever this agent is, he's probably riding really close to the line with adding the landscaping, it looks like part of it would be on land that's not actually the property, the bits on the other side of the sidewalk. plus any edits to the sidewalk of course. The power lines removed/concealed, however I could possibly see that being done with some really specific angle/cropping. Hard to tell without being behind the camera myself
"Virtual Staging” means using software (including Generative AI) to create or modify a photo or conceptual rendering to display what a room or property could look like if it were staged or lived in.
Modifying photos or renderings to include personal property items not conveyed with the real property is permitted. For example, it is permitted to apply digital photos of furniture, mirrors, artwork, plants, or similar items into a photo of an empty room, or to remove existing furniture or similar elements from a photo.
NOTE: Modifying photos or renderings to include visual elements not within a property owner’s control is prohibited. For example, removing power lines, water towers, or nearby roads is not permitted.
It's really open-ended, which lines up with NAR's simpering article about how you should put out a true photo of the property, but also if you want to use AI to renovate a kitchen to show the buyer the potential, that's totally fine too
The National Association of REALTORS®’ Code of Ethics requires its members to “refrain from exaggerating, misrepresenting or concealing pertinent facts” of a property (Article 2) and to present a “true picture” in advertising and marketing (Article 12).
AI also can help buyers visualize more possibilities. A buyer may struggle to imagine what a dated kitchen could become
Yes the shadows don't make any sense - look at the ones on the far stage-left vs far stage-right.
The perspective distortion is just outright bizarre - the angles are what the building would look like with a very wide lens from standing 1-2 ft from the corner of the building... except we're supposed to be standing 20-30 ft back.
My favorite is how there is a door on the stage-right side that just goes right into a bush.
My realtor a few years ago completely botched our listing by overdoing the photo edits. He even turned a basement into a bedroom when it legally could not be classed as a bedroom. So a bunch of people looking for 3 bedrooms came and of course didn’t offer because it’s actually 2 bedrooms. My husband and I felt it was dishonest and ho matter how hard we pushed back to try to get him to make the pictures accurate he refused. He was such a dick and I hope we never see him again!
As a person who owns zero property, and has no knowledge of the subject, can I ask why you could not tell the realtor or estate agent to fuck off and stop?
Listing had already gone live and we would have had to find a new realtor and redo all of the pictures. And buyers look at listing history. If a house goes on and off the market and then on again people will assume there was a problem with the house that tanked an offer.
In real estate , it seems so counter productive. Most buyers are going to go to an open house or private showing.
A best a turnoff for the prospective buyer , at worst the prospective buyer walks because trust is blown. If you’re lying in the photos , what else are are you lying about.
Looks like they're missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars just due to poor landscaping. I won't pretend to be a realtor, but that just sounds like... Really bad management?
I opened the map thinking it must be in the center of NYC but it is four hour walk from the Manhattan. If I can afford 2 million home then I'm not living right next to what seems to be an urban highway this far away from the city center.
Seems the realtor is the one getting in the way of this one, besides the insane price. The photos are pointless because now that you know what it looks like IRL, all photos could have been doctored up.
And I now cannot help but to think: If there were a problem with the house, would that be disclosed? Probably not.
LOL, look at the outside pictures, the background cars and trees are stretched a bit weird... Or the grass is litterally green/and white compared to the rest of the neighborhoods.
edit Looking through the pictures ,it's spot the AI. The lights are a weird weird in kitchen reflections.
Nevermind that's across the street. This one is the previously vacant lot. So if it's a new build why didn't they just build it the way it is in the pic?
This needs to be stopped ASAP, at the VERY least they should have to provide unedited photos with anything thats photoshopped, enhanced, altered or just straight up Ai fucking fantasy!
AI is such bullshit. You have to be aware of it in any digital space now.
I did a little research and many states are NOT making AI realty photos illegal, but they are making it necessary to properly disclose the images are altered by AI. I don't believe it is a law in New York yet; however, it seems as though they are definitely moving in that direction.
The usage laws behind artificial intelligence are lagging so far behind. It's almost like there should be a blanket law for disclosure of it's use in any setting 🤔. I mean I would get rid of it all together but I think that ship is fucking sailed.
I guess AI qualifies as more than mildly infuriating to me 😂
It looks like a renovated office building regardless.
I’m so sick of how accessible AI is to just whoever the fuck. They have no ethics, no design sense. If it’s better than what they could do or better than reality, it’s good enough.
I recently saw a local woman advertising her “bakery business” and then upon looking further into it. She had no storefront. All of the images of the storefront were AI and featured different logos with her brand name. She probably thinks it looks awesome. And to be honest, who cares if she bakes it at home? Why are you faking a storefront?
I saw another person today on a news story about a murder suicide comment, “Can someone please make it look like the victims are in heaven?” Referring to the family picture used in the article. WHY? For what purpose?
I got out of design years before AI became a problem because I realized people just do not give af how corny or illegible their branding looks so long as it was cheap and easy.
Start naming the companies and listing agents and call them out. There is no ambiguity about who misusing AI slop to deceive buyers. This is likely illegal in most states and unethical everywhere.
I don't know why people do this, a little touchup is helpful, but when you misrepresent it so extremely you're setting yourself up for failure.
I like my job, and my company, but we all work remotely, and they do AI makeovers for our employee photos and go WAY too far with them, especially for the women. They'll take a matronly woman in her 50s, then touch her up to look like an 11/10 30 year old, just unbelievably gorgeous. Then the moment you get on a Zoom call the discrepancy is so enormous that the first few times it happened I thought I was talking to a completely different person.
And don't get me wrong, it's not because I'm judging them on their attractiveness, it's because expectations and reality are SO far apart.
I just saw a 9 mill (CAD) land only property advert. The part about there being no house is buried in tiny footnotes, and there's a massive ai picture of a fake ass house.
I had this prob when I was house shopping and that was back in 2020. Not ai but definitely photo shop. I just don't understand how they think presenting an inaccurate photo will have someone come to see it and be like yep this is the house I want!
If anything it's just attracting people expecting something else and instantly turned off when they might have actually liked the house of not tricked
Damn, another one? Algo doing work on my end today. Repor them for violations of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Code of Ethics (Article 12) your welcome
It’s wild the things I’ll see and then have to go through great lengths to verify
Like one house had a $250,000 luxury pool AI added. This is 40% of the house value. Hell what if you threw 1 million bucks at it imagine the Palace you could have.
Dumb! Had another where they completely redid the front of the house and the roof line and added an addition via AI with a tiny thing in the corner that said AI enhanced. This was a $232,000 home in the country…. The addition would’ve been a third of the price!
I think realtors should be allowed to be sued for deceptive marketing practices when they do shit like this. It’s already against MLS in most states to do things as small as green grass replacement, but this is next level.
It’s honestly not even THAT bad, the outside (I hesitate to call it a yard…) is obviously entirely made up, but the building is just a lot more flattering with a good angle - but they didn’t brush out pipes or wires.
On one hand, yeah it looks a lot less appealing in the second photo, but it’s very clearly the same house.
Edit: Ok, the second image posted in comments is much more egregious, it appears to add a lot more yard around the house and gives an impression of a larger lot than actually exists.
Yeah the building looks the same. The angle and lighting are different but that’s not illegal clearly. Wonder if the realtor rules don’t count “theoretical” landscaping etc
Walk up to the same angle and take the picture. You’re like 30 feet away. I know it doesn’t change the landscaping but the building does look pretty much the same.
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u/spice_war Aug 22 '26
There should be rules against using AI for realty photos. I’m not buying your fucking idea of the house. I’m buying the house as it is.