I'm so sick of these lying agents and what I call FAKE listings!

[Anonymous]

It's not criminal. And (unfortunately) it is now quite standard. It just is what it is.

It's always been caveat emptor on house listings anyways.

[Anonymous]

I think OP has a fair point. If it was just painting over it, great. But, there's lavender and sage tile and lots of wood on the walls to remove. That's expensive. And this is a modest price point. If somebody needs to have 4 bedrooms and looking for 700K, they don't want to see a house that is 700K and at least another 50K on just the two bathrooms. But I'm not a realtor defending their evil ways. OP, that's who's pushing back on you. Not the normal mean girls.

[Anonymous]

I’m ok with them simulating anything an average, non handy person could DIY. So decor, paint and even flooring. But I’ve seen ones with new windows, a nonexistent kitchen island, new bathroom tile, an entire patio and outdoor kitchen…no way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, there is nothing fake or lying about staging a house.

Second, in the listing you posted, the rooms in their current state are posted immediately before or after the rooms that have been "decorated" using AI. Only a blithering idiot would need to be informed that the nicer looking image has been modified.

This. It's showing you what you could do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a fair point. If it was just painting over it, great. But, there's lavender and sage tile and lots of wood on the walls to remove. That's expensive. And this is a modest price point. If somebody needs to have 4 bedrooms and looking for 700K, they don't want to see a house that is 700K and at least another 50K on just the two bathrooms. But I'm not a realtor defending their evil ways. OP, that's who's pushing back on you. Not the normal mean girls.

The work needed to be done is going to be very pricey on this. Only realtors getting ready to be obsolete would jump on the first poster like this. Any reasonable person knows these are expensive fixes. Wood paneling yo drive wall is so expensive. Just one example all those repairs are rediculous.

[Anonymous]

Um, it is VERY OBVIOUS that the "modern" set of photos is there to help people visualize what they could do with the room. How is it misleading when they have the real photos first?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a fair point. If it was just painting over it, great. But, there's lavender and sage tile and lots of wood on the walls to remove. That's expensive. And this is a modest price point. If somebody needs to have 4 bedrooms and looking for 700K, they don't want to see a house that is 700K and at least another 50K on just the two bathrooms. But I'm not a realtor defending their evil ways. OP, that's who's pushing back on you. Not the normal mean girls.

No, because the example OP uses has the real photos. Stop trying to defend an idiot who can't even look at photos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't even bother telling you it's fake staged or AI. I couldn't and wouldn't work with a deceptive realtor like this. This would cost hundreds of thousands to do on an already overpriced home!

Just sick and tired of the bs. It's criminal.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8-Wabasso-Ter-Middletown-RI-02842/66079992_zpid/

Yeah…. I’m fine with AI furniture staging (half the time when I see the house in person the staging from the photos is gone anyways). But I don’t think it’s cool to have AI change the flooring to hardwood or change the paint colors. That’s deceptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a fair point. If it was just painting over it, great. But, there's lavender and sage tile and lots of wood on the walls to remove. That's expensive. And this is a modest price point. If somebody needs to have 4 bedrooms and looking for 700K, they don't want to see a house that is 700K and at least another 50K on just the two bathrooms. But I'm not a realtor defending their evil ways. OP, that's who's pushing back on you. Not the normal mean girls.

No, because the example OP uses has the real photos. Stop trying to defend an idiot who can't even look at photos.

Look, low IQ Real-Tor TM. Your time as employed is limited. It's unethical for somebody searching a 700K price point to see a house that needs so much work.

[Anonymous]

Remember folks this is a profession that is about getting people to sell and buy as many homes as possible for the highest prices possible. It would be easy enough to require any AI generated photos to have a disclaimer to that effect but the profession won’t do it because they don’t really care about protecting buyers and sellers; again, the goal is get people to buy and sell as much as possible. Please always remember that agents are not there to act in your interests, and maybe then you won’t be surprised or disappointed by stuff like this.

[Anonymous]

AI labeling should be clear and every listing should have actual real pictures of the house. Not AI, but I’ve noticed a lot of trickery using lenses to make spaces are much larger than they are. Tiny rooms look huge! To me that’s similar to using AI.

[Anonymous]

Yeah OP I think it shouldn’t be allowed at all. I am not buying a hypothetical house. I’m buying an actual house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't even bother telling you it's fake staged or AI. I couldn't and wouldn't work with a deceptive realtor like this. This would cost hundreds of thousands to do on an already overpriced home!

Just sick and tired of the bs. It's criminal.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8-Wabasso-Ter-Middletown-RI-02842/66079992_zpid/

Yeah…. I’m fine with AI furniture staging (half the time when I see the house in person the staging from the photos is gone anyways). But I don’t think it’s cool to have AI change the flooring to hardwood or change the paint colors. That’s deceptive.

100% that's just the flooring and it still needs two full bathrooms gutted, rooms drywalled, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah OP I think it shouldn’t be allowed at all. I am not buying a hypothetical house. I’m buying an actual house.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be a requirement that if a picture is AI generated it has a label that says AI generated. There are times when you have to flip back and forth and try to guess if it's the real photo or if it's fake.

I agree with this. In the case of this listing it is obvious which pictures are AI, but there are other listings out there where the AI-altered photos are less obvious to the average person (like ones where the yard is burned out but they make the grass green).

There was one listing in my neighborhood where they used AI to add a fence to the yard when no fence existed.