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Estate agent AI photographs.

Sailbad
Sailbad Posts: 91 Forumite
Fifth Anniversary 10 Posts
in House buying, renting & selling

Looked at a flat for sale and took some photos. The comparison between the estate agents website photos and mine was striking. Small print says some photos may be "staged" to show what the rooms might look like with furniture and different lighting conditions, but this was something quite different. The corner of the bathroom beside the toilet had obvious sign of water damage, gap between warped skirting and wall. Estate agents photo looked fine of course.

Is this sort of thing common practise and is it legal honest and truthful?

Comments

  • Woodstok2000
    Woodstok2000 Posts: 2,029 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper

    Photoshop has been around for years, so it's not (necessarily) AI, although that has brought previously advanced skills to the masses!

    Could have been worse, they could have just painted over it and you'd never know until the issue reappeared later.

  • Chief_of_Staffy
    Chief_of_Staffy Posts: 490 Forumite
    100 Posts First Anniversary Name Dropper

    It's probably legal but it's not truthful. I've seen a few of those ads with AI makeovers; they might as well just take photos of a different house. It started with the badly photoshopped skies and now it's everything in the photo.

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