I've seen listings show original and "sample" pictures with AI furniture. This is the way.

Yeah. Honestly, I don't really have a problem if a developer is just able to... not spend a bunch of money on a ton of furniture that'll get shuttled between different properties, not accidentally bang up a wall, etc, and just make a good looking listing image that accurately represents the space.

All the better if it can maybe lead at least some of the more mom & pop landlords to not charge more because they're looking to recoup staging costs.

Hell, I'd love it if I could look at a listing, and maybe get like 5 or 6 different options for how the space could look in very different styles, rather than the same, bland, generic palette of furniture and colors just because that's the only truly cost-effective option.

But of course, we can't have AI do anything good, that'd be ridiculous. It has to move the windows around and make the space look twice as big for no reason!

When my house was listed, they freshened up the sky of all things. Every picture had the same clouds regardless of direction.

A fisheye lens/high FOV, HDR, and lighting edits already give there illusion of larger better lit rooms.

The clever thing would be AI depth mapping and insertion of 3D models of furniture, etc, rather than full generative AI in-painting

There's a salon near me that has recently taped up ai generated pictures of people to show what kind of hairstyle they offer. Like, the whole point of the photo is to prove the quality of the service...

I do kind of get it, big companies have the advantage of paid photographers and inventive "serving suggestions" to make a floppy dry mc-chicken look like a Dionysian feast. My local kabab taking a photo of greasy meat with their phone under the old florescant lamps never looks as good.

I mean, I obviously salivate at such images, but I’m not sure I'd trust them to bring in the dough were I a small proprietor.

A fucking apartment though? Fraud, Straight to jail.

CGI furniture is quite common and pretty acceptable as it's just a layer on top of the photo. Whatever software they use is really good about marching scale.

Personally I'm a fan of it. I lack the ability to look at an empty room and "see" a layout so it's kind of awesome to have a mock-up.....

...But I saw a listing the other day that took me a minute....a pool table taking up way too much room in the basement. Then I caught the small text on GAME ROOM sign. A ceiling tile grid that changes sizes. A hallway that turns into a nook between photos.

That's where I draw the line. The edits don't help me understand the layout or give me design ideas, it's simply false advertising.

3D renderings made from the construction BIM model are a totally different thing than probabilistic AI output that might or might not match reality.

My sister just did like 3 months of house searching and it was not possible for her to find one without AI photos. Most had full on "reimagine" features.

I hate that anyway. I want to see photos of an empty property. I can imagine my own furniture and layout, thank you.

With everything out of scale and misleading far beyond the old camera tricks they used to use.