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Please continue to be conscientious in which directions that you do and don't go with this, especially for rentals. (When renters might be deciding entirely from photos, or be over a barrel when they arrive in town the last week of August, and are told to show up for a 5-minute tour with their checkbook in hand). I'm starting to see people using photo enhancement for old apartments here in Boston, to obscure the condition of the apartment. Originally, it was just the superwide shots that made the space look much bigger than it is. (Incidentally, be careful when removing distortion cues that this is going on, or you might make it even more deceptive.) Then it started doing generated "staged" furniture and decorations, which are still fairly innocuous, although they can potentially cover up problems with condition and quirky architecture. But now, with all-out "AI-filtered" "photos" (or sometimes 3D renders, like for new-construction apartment floorplans), you can't necessarily tell that a $3K 1BR is 150 years old, and minimally maintained, with grime that can't be cleaned, and suspended ceiling panels hiding the collapsed original ceiling, and the only renovation in the last few decades was a can of paint sloshed onto unfinished sheet of plywood wall from a budget apartment conversion. |
Given, some people will use this to deceive their customers by blowing things out of current proportions but we can't help much in that case. Should I find any way to help though, I shall!