they've always "freshened up" listings by adding furnishings so that part is probably fine. the issues start when the computer moves walls and windows around.

I saw a thing yesterday about how Just Eat are now using AI generated images of the food being offered.

It's pissed me off for long enough that so many restaurants use stock images, rather than just taking a fucking photo of what they make, but for there to be no human at all in the process is a massive piss take. If they as a restaurant don't care enough about the food they offer to take some photos of it, then I, even as a fat bastard with a tendency towards gluttony, don't care enough to order from them.

And that's just a takeaway. AI images of somewhere that might cost me £1300 a month can fuck right off.

Right?? Out of date photos are annoying enough to deal with, but outright faked "photos" are a whole other ball game!

A use case I've seen (not AI actually, but old-school CGI when I was looking a few years ago) is for projects still in construction where you can reserve an apartment and buy when it's ready. The CGI images show the general shape of the place and illustrate what it might look like once furnished, with the very clear notice that the apartment will be turned over unfurnished and the photos are only there to give you an idea

AI boosters convinced people that we need "AI centrism", which is exactly thing like this, except they took their lessons from how racist operate, and depicted one extreme as vibe coding/slop posting, while the other as just not wanting to use AI. One AI booster trying to pass as "AI critical" actually used the horseshoe theory in his video, but painting Hasan Piker as the "far left" option to Nick Fuentes. Hasan is not as far left as some people try to make it look like, he's just annoying and people think extremism means being annoying, while tankies like George of Santos (formerly BadEmpanda) know to keep his cool.

Because rich people can’t commit crimes in glorious great America.

Not defending it, but they usually use AI to stage fake furnishings without actually renting furniture.

Some images simply overly fake furniture over real locations, and I imagine this is simply an AI extension of what they did with Photoshop. Both should be considered fraud, imo, but photos with furniture likely to sell/rent better than real empty photos.

I miss when we just had staged photos, though I feel like that died during COVID when open houses stopped being a sort of mandatory part of the process.

Yeah, look out the window and see vibrant blue and green? Check it out in person: industrial wasteland or dystopian greyscape.

It's also so fucking annoying when I'm trying to get a feel for the room's dimensions and space, and I have to try to imagine it through a fucking enormous number of AI-generated plants cluttering the entire fucking thing. Like, no interior designer or professional home stager would fill the space half as much, so why the fuck are they using AI to make it look like that?

People should also be less surprised that the handsome, well spoken, popular, Mamdani was able to flatter an egocentric, maniac, surrounded by sycophants, like Trump into being his biggest supporter. Forget playing him like fiddle, Trump is the dollar store recorder they forced on us elementary school.

99% of politicians don't work for the people. A capitalist system will always require anyone with power to chase the money. He's part of the remaining 1%

Well, most local politicians are 1) mediocre and 2) not the mayor of one of the largest cities in the world.

The city has more people than 38 states. It's hard to get more visibility than that.
Like, my local mayor ordered the police to forbid certain types of restraints, ban no-knock warrants, and raising the threshold for traffic stops. Also moderately updated the ordinances around recreational marijuana businesses . He's also directed city funds towards fighting homelessness by providing substance abuse counseling and housing them in vacant appointments we already have, and building auxiliary housing.

Pretty good. But there's only around 100k people. It's just not as much impact or visibility.

This is not helping. It's actually allowing AI to be used, unfortunately. "we promise to disclose it" good luck

If our country weren't so bought off by billionaires, it wouldn't feel so weird to see a politician doing obviously correct things.

I wish he'd just hit the "gay space communism" button already.

Everything is fraud these days. We are in the Golden Era of Fraud.

I mean, it's so hard. You have to find a camera, who's got a camera? Then you have to take the film in for developing, then you have to scan the picture into your computer.

Of only they made a compact device that included a camera, that you could keep in your pocket.

It's called doing anything. Like, these things he's doing are great, but it really shouldn't be headlines. These things should just be normal politician things. They're great because every other fucking politician doesn't give half a shit about their people, but they shouldn't be. They should be boring things, that are done, and you don't even know it has happened.

You can't give the blanket "Democrats" credit for this. The degree to which the Democratic establishment fought to keep guys like him out if power can't be understated. However the progressive parts of the democratic party are growing in strength and number by the day. I hope some day the party stands up for half of what he does. This is the only guy who makes me hopeful for the future

They'll immediately break down when he ends up legislating trans athletes to participate in sporting events, and the first highly successful trans Olympic champion will credit him for siding with their community after receiving the gold medal for 500 yard dash.

Go Zohran, we have faith in you.

They would argue is a 1st amendment violation

The more outlandish the claims the easier they gobble it up

The Midterm election is going to change a lot of mayors and a few governors. We'll see who is embracing the Mamdani Effect at that point. After seeing how successful and popular Madani has been, I think there will be a few.

I can't remember if it was before 2016 but it is something Trump said, he said "you are going to get sick of winning".

But this is actually what winning looks like. Approval ratings go up!!!

so no fake tiddies on your stripper?

kind of a big city though

Republican voters either own the homes or are sympathetic to the noble landlords offering the lowly peons a place to live for 60% of their income.

Well, based on who they elected president they actively hate honesty, or maybe they like people who are honest about their dishonesty.

Mamdani and Abdul have really got my straight guy card all bent out of shape.