Scammers are going to make so much money from AI. It is a tool that seems primarily intended for nefarious purposes, with very few actually constructive and positive uses. Because for scamming purposes it doesn't have to be perfect, but in any constructive use cases it does. And since it will never become perfect, it will mainly be used for this kind of nonsense.
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The AI is already disturbing, but why did it add a tarantula trapped in the street light?
Ai has a knack for the terrifying. I really think it's because of the large Volume of training material they stole from deviantart
The shadow of the lamp is one of those old american park-o-meters!
I could not for the life of me figure out what OP was talking about with tarantulas, so thank you. It's just the shadow of a parking meter.
me, an aussie being like… tarantula? looks like a huntsman, and then looking up at the big boy currently chilling in the corner of the living room to check
I really don’t understand what drives people to do something like this
Money. It's just a scam, straight up. Glad you spotted it.
What happens when you book this and turn up at the location?
You discover that it doesn't exist and you have to make last minute alternate arrangements.
Airbnb will try to help you, but if it's during a busy season, you are kinda fucked. Once my airbnb host for a 5 bedroom house cancelled last minute and airbnb was like "don't worry, we can get you alternate accomodations" and recommended me to a field that we could camp at, lol.
You'd probably get refunded by Airbnb, and they'd ultimately pay the monetary price of the scam, but yeah, trying to find a hotel or b&b with space at the last minute would be mega stressful. Worst comes to worst, you sleep in the car.
Wow I knew they were virtually staging houses for sale, which I thought was fine until I realized the process doesn't just add furniture, it also cleans up imperfections in the house.
AI photos for a short term rental seems like fraud by default
The imperfections aren't as much the issue as the scaling. There was a thread at some point where someone asked how hard it would be to diy their bathroom after getting an AI suggestion. The problem with it was that AI essentially took a tiny room and scaled down everything to make it look big. For the generated picture to make sense the toilet and sink would have to be comically small but because every detail was scaled down it wasn't noticeable to the OP until others pointed it out and they could only point it out because of the before-picture.
If you look at an AI house listing they often have a very clean minimalist design but the size doesn't check out.
Totally unnecessary too. Looked like a decent place in the normal pics. Hope whatever site this was one responds strongly when this is reported. Also seems they need better screening in place as that should have been easily detectable.
Most of the actual photographs are of the view, though. I wonder if most of the interior is gross.
Looks like they used AI specifically to upscale the original images, or get a different angle, or remove something they didn’t like in the original image.
if it were upscaled, it wouldn’t:
- remove the balcony
- remove the stone wall next to the path
- add the mountain in the background
- add a completely wrong shadow for the bus stop
they’re all just straight up fabrications… i’d guess it was a “like this” or “in the style of” request with reference photos
The weirdest thing is that this looks like just any old barn in Austria, so why even bother?

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