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Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era
https://www.wired.com/story/real-estate-is-entering-its-ai-slop-era/As you’re hunting through real estate listings for a new home in Franklin, Tennessee, you come across a vertical video showing off expansive rooms featuring a four-poster bed, a fully stocked wine cellar, and a soaking tub. In the corner of the video, a smiling real estate agent narrates the walk-through of your dream home in a soothing tone. It looks perfect—maybe a little too perfect.
The catch? Everything in the video is AI-generated. The real property is completely empty, and the luxury furniture is a product of virtual staging. The realtor’s voice-over and expressions were born from text prompts. Even the camera’s slow pan over each room is orchestrated by AI, because there was no actual video camera involved.
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Her suspicions were confirmed when she came across a second listing for the same property and saw the original images that had been transformed. In the edited versions, kitchen cabinets were missing, backyard pavement was replaced by grass, and windows were dramatically resized. Elizabeth posted the two sets of images on Reddit in the popular “mildly infuriating” subreddit, and more than 1,200 people commented.
“This is misleading. It’s distorting the features of the house,” she continued. She says real estate listings often use a fish-eye lens to make rooms look bigger, but with AI “we’ve entered a whole new realm.”
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The catch? Everything in the video is AI-generated. The real property is completely empty, and the luxury furniture is a product of virtual staging. The realtor’s voice-over and expressions were born from text prompts. Even the camera’s slow pan over each room is orchestrated by AI, because there was no actual video camera involved.
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Her suspicions were confirmed when she came across a second listing for the same property and saw the original images that had been transformed. In the edited versions, kitchen cabinets were missing, backyard pavement was replaced by grass, and windows were dramatically resized. Elizabeth posted the two sets of images on Reddit in the popular “mildly infuriating” subreddit, and more than 1,200 people commented.
“This is misleading. It’s distorting the features of the house,” she continued. She says real estate listings often use a fish-eye lens to make rooms look bigger, but with AI “we’ve entered a whole new realm.”
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This is fraud. And as I've said before, fraud is one of the main uses of AI.