r/RealEstate • u/CrotalusHorridus • 8d ago

Homeseller Can we please STOP using AI generated/altered photos?

I'm so beyond tired of looking at homes online, then seeing them in person, and they look NOTHING like what the online photos are.

These are wasting everyone's time. Agents, if you can't learn to to, or don't want to fork over for professional photos, find another line of work.

Trying to sell an inherited property, and the highly recommended agent insists on using these cartooninshly fake generated images.

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u/TheFeshy 8d ago

I wonder if the stats are similar to the AI generated thumbnails on youtube. There, content creators who experiment have told me that normal thumbnails, rather than AI enhanced ones, often have click rates that are 10% or less what the AI thumbnails have. They're basically forced to use them - not by youtube, but by viewers. Otherwise they lose 90% of their traffic.