I recently saw a listing for a house where the pictures alternate between a garbage looking house and a nice cleaned up version. At first I thought it was before and after pictures for a renovated house, but no they were AI generated pictures showing what the house would look like if you spent $50k+ fixing up the place. I'm not sure what the motivation is. It just emphasizes what a piece of garbage the house is.

I think there must just be some kind of fundamental divide between people wanting to form their own assessments, and other people wanting assessments (ie narratives) fed to them.

Given any marketing skin - whether it's traditional embellished copywriting, a 3D tour of real estate, or now generative "AI" creating stories/environments from whole cloth - and my only goal is to cut through those distractions and figure out the underlying details. Heck, I don't even really appreciate sales people hovering around me when I'm looking at something (whether its real estate or a product). And the times I do give in and perhaps ask them a question, I generally regret it as I'm met with a genAI answer (for decades now, even! such innovate, much wow)

Yet these things endure, ostensibly because some people really expect these... crutches? to fill in their imaginations? I guess they want to be told a story, which they will then judge against other competing stories others have told them? It's just so foreign to me.

Look at the renderings of the new Bribery Hall being added to the Grift House in the US.

Tons of AI artifacts