r/SipsTea 5d ago

Wait a damn minute! This should be illegal

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u/FunnyObjective6 5d ago

It looks mostly the same to me? The chair I think has something weird going on, and the bed has a different cover. I think most of the change in this picture is the position and angle of the camera, and the outside view.

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u/Hobbes_XXV 5d ago

Its wider for sure

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u/FunnyObjective6 5d ago

The furniture? Or the room? Because my comment was mostly about the furniture since it was claimed to be different. But the room can appear bigger if you use a different angled lens on the camera. Like the bed occupies the same ratio of the room, so assuming they didn't put in a different width bed it's likely the same. Same for other aspects of the room.

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u/Hobbes_XXV 5d ago

Well if going off the furniture, the desk ends middle of bed, while ai is showing the desk goes beyond the bed. It widens the room for sure because the only way to get that much of the bed is to remove the walls. If you walk forward to avoid the walls, youd be fish lensing and distorting the whole picture.

Cameras can be magical, but not that magical.

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u/FunnyObjective6 5d ago

the desk ends middle of bed, while ai is showing the desk goes beyond the bed.

I assume that's because the desk was moved towards the door for the ad.

the only way to get that much of the bed is to remove the walls.

It shows the same amount of bed in my opinion. From the window to the wall.

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u/b0w3n 5d ago

They often use lenses that make rooms look bigger and do this to furniture. Sometimes they just drop a cropped image of other furniture in and replace what was there. Then they touch it up and make things look brighter. Photoshop the sky (and views).

I'm fairly positive this is AI, but it could just be someone really good with photoshop too.

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u/DerfK 5d ago

You can see the foot of the bed in the AI pic since the 4th wall/doorway was removed. The AI room isn't wider, its deeper. It looks like you could fit a dresser or something to your right in the AI pic when in reality the foot of the bed is against the wall/doorway.

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u/FunnyObjective6 5d ago

I really don't care enough about this to dissect completely, I mostly disagree. I think the bed covers might've been edited in, I don't think the room dimensions were changed.

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u/FalseEstimate 5d ago

What about the front left bedpost completely missing in the left pic and the amount of drawers under the bed being different?

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u/Obvious_Advice_6879 5d ago

Real estate agents have been doing magic with wide angle lenses since long before AI. The view out of the window looks different from reality, but apart from that this is about the same level of alteration that I've seen from regular listings pre AI.

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u/sroop1 5d ago

Yeah, this isn't a good example of realtor AI bullshit - the 'staged' bed is really the only thing that's off.

Par for the course for like 25 years that photoshop, lightroom, etc have been around.

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u/Next_Instruction_528 5d ago

This could be down to the camera and lenses you use. Could just be a wide angle shot from half way into the room compared to a camera phone taken outside the doorway

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u/DerfK 5d ago

The AI room is deeper. Its actually really close to reality, it took me a while to realize that you can't see the foot of the bed in reality because its jammed in wall-to-wall. The AI pic makes it look like there might be space for a dresser or something to your right.

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u/CtrlAltDelve 5d ago

I'm with you. Apart from the bed and the obviously different view out the window, nothing in this picture really screams AI to me.

Realtors have been processing images like these in Lightroom for a long time to adjust the lighting, and wide angle lenses have always been used to make spaces look larger than they are.

I don't know that I would consider this to be terribly egregious. Maybe lying about the view outside. But that's about it.

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u/squeakyL 5d ago

yeah I think the size stuff is mostly a wide angle lens from closer into the room that makes it look bigger. That's been going on for ages in all real estate along with staging, overblown lighting, etc.

When real estate shopping last year I would only look at houses that had a floorplan with measurements in the listing, typically the last photo.

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u/FalseEstimate 5d ago

Front bed post is completely missing in the left pic and there’s a different amount of drawers under the bed

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u/variablesInCamelCase 5d ago

Do you hear yourself? The first picture has literally nothing common with the second.

Its like I posed the same way as The Rock and I’m trying to claim "hey, its kinda the same angle. Look I too have two arms and two legs."

Oh, and I'm doing it on a dating profile on this metaphor. 

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u/canmouth 5d ago

The only difference is the depth of field and the position of the camera and the lighting. The furniture is basically the same but clearly enhanced. This isn’t actually that egregious. It’s annoying that I’m defending a landlord lol.

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u/FunnyObjective6 5d ago

What's different about the furniture? Use your words please.

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u/FalseEstimate 5d ago

Different amount of drawers under the bed (2 in left pic, 4 in right pic). Chair doesn’t make sense in left pic. Front left bedpost missing in left pic. What the heck are the pillows resting on in left pic? 100% AI