The real estate industry is keen on leveraging generative AI. Real estate agents have made extensive use of the technology, transforming photos of properties beyond recognition by coating exteriors and interiors with a thick layer of AI-generated paint. Text descriptions of properties have become a bunch of ChatGPT-generated buzzwords, turning an already frustrating house hunt into a truly irritating experience.
Understanding what a rental apartment actually looks like in the real world has come back to the guessing game. We’ve come across some bizarre listings of inexplicably Assified houses with architectural features smoothed out, trees misplaced, furniture rearranged in a senseless way, and props damaged.
But now, a Washington, D.C., property has taken the cake by listing on the market. A renter looking for a new home in the capital made a horrifying discovery while browsing listings: what can only be described as a horrific monster poking her disfigured head from inside. and Outside – bathroom mirror.
In other words, it’s the kind of nightmare creature that only a flawed artificial intelligence algorithm could create—and that only a time-pressed real estate agent wouldn’t notice before releasing it for the world to see.
A property listing in Fort Totten, a suburb north of Washington, D.C., has since been removed from Apartments.com. Other instances of the same listing still exist on other sites, such as Redfin, but no longer contain corrupted images of what one Reddit user described as a “sleep paralysis demon.” Helpfully, the Internet Archive backs up a snapshot of the listing before it was removed.
“This was literally the worst thing that ever happened to me before I went to sleep,” one horrified user wrote. “That thing somehow gave me raw primal fear that was at an all time high.”
The Zillow listing for the property included original photos of the same bathroom or differently edited photos, suggesting the real estate agent may have tried to remove personal makeup left on the dresser by the previous tenant.
In addition to the nightmarish creature, a mysterious footstool was added to the center of the bathroom floor, further proving the intervention of artificial intelligence tools.
“Then, for some reason, the AI added an uncanny valley blow-up doll that can walk through the mirror to get to the bathroom salad,” one user wrote.
futuristic The real estate company behind the listing has been contacted for comment.
This isn’t even the first bathroom demon a tenant has encountered recently. Another Reddit user noticed a small woman holding a smartphone disturbingly crouched on top of the toilet tank.
“How come you didn’t notice the molten demon crawling out of the wall before you posted it?” one confused user wrote, responding to a suggestion that an AI image editing tool might be involved. “It made my stomach drop.”
It’s unclear whether the image (which contained a watermark from partner real estate agent tool MLS, but there’s no indication it was edited with artificial intelligence) violated any rules before being removed, as rules can vary widely. As real estate photo AI image editing tool Giraffe360 notes on its website, MLS organizations “consistently prohibit” edits that remove or alter structural elements, delete or modify views, or digitally renovate or upgrade the interior or exterior.
“Here’s a simple test: If an edit requires physical modification in real life to achieve it, then it shouldn’t appear in the MLS listing photo,” the site reads.
It’s unclear whether the terrifying monster crawling out of the bathroom mirror will require any physical modifications.
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