Real estate sites are filling up with glaringly AI-altered images that dress up run-down properties as being in much better shape than they actually are.

Landlords are using AI to populate rooms with nonexistent furniture, move walls around, dream up imaginary facades, rooflines, and landscaping, and brighten up rooms that are in reality devoid of sunlight.

Case in point, a Zillow listing recently identified by children’s book illustrator DeAnn Wiley, recently interviewed by Slate, shows an AI-yassified facade of a rental property in Detroit, Michigan that’s smoothed over to a comical degree. It was an astonishing makeover: rooms didn’t show the grime the house had accumulated over the decades, thanks to an AI repainting the walls or refinishing floors.

And as Wired reports, some AI com

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