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NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

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Does basic photoshop count as AI usage...? What about changing color balance, dynamic range, etc?

I'm sure soon enough dating apps will get smart and instead of the "you have no matches" they will make some fake AI matches so you have a feeling that something is happening and you have a chance of actually meeting someone.

don't they already do that? They used to use real people's photos from other apps. I'm sure they use AI now.

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Not going to lie, I wish they also added a square footage as a legal requirement too. It is entirely baffling to me as to why, but NYC is the only major city in the US I've ever lived in where it is genuinely a problem. In all other cities, I had no issues with that, pretty much every single posting online had square footage. Meanwhile, on StreetEasy (and other platforms listing NYC rental units), looking for apartme…

There is square footage on many NYC listings, but it’s wrong. They often have the square footage of the total area occupied by the apartment, including all the interior walls and columns that can take 20% of the area away.

They also often include external square footage like balconies which warp it.

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At some point I hope we as a society stop trusting anything we see online. It's fake, slop, generated bullshit in most cases and only getting worse.

But this is incredibly bad for commerce when online has already destroyed offline commerce! We should simply not let people do fraud. Some of the oldest laws define weight and measures for this reason.

This will be great for offline commerce. Swinging pendulum, meet the other way.

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Lmao, Mayor lives in dream land. Who's going to spend their days enforcing such a ban

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/nyc-agen...

> The New York City government employs a workforce of more than 280,000 full-time employees.

You know, I think they'll find a few.

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Right? Germany too. I wouldn’t even have thought this could be a problem…

Maybe it’s different for rentals but you’d think the banks would also want accurate data on the properties they’re mortgaging…and cities for tax revenue…so strange!

Why? Banks and cities only care about the price. They also want price to be under and over estimated respectively, neither would want the accurate price, even less so the accurate area.

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Freezes rents but not taxes. Landlords take inventory offline. Studios at $5500. 1 beds at $7500. Yea, he's a real genius of his own mind.

So a landlord would rather not have income from an expensive deprecating asset?

There are no landlords in NYC anymore, since they all fled when Mamdani was elected.

Re: NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

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To begin with, they should make it a legal requirement to list Condo vs Coop in listings, not "condo/coop". One is usually easier to get, the other pushes people thru discriminatory hoops that many profiles have no hopes of passing -- but get stuck in the theatre of process and formality (often not knowing the entire process is engineered to exclude them.)

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Maybe it’s different for rentals but you’d think the banks would also want accurate data on the properties they’re mortgaging…and cities for tax revenue…so strange!

Why? Banks and cities only care about the price. They also want price to be under and over estimated respectively, neither would want the accurate price, even less so the accurate area.

Are there no property taxes in the US? And how do you know if the price is reasonable without knowing its relationship to the property size?

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Right? Germany too. I wouldn’t even have thought this could be a problem…

In some countries, like a poster mentioned, they include the “built” size, not the actual liveable size. Sometimes the balconies are included in that, and it is misleading. Two bedrooms in 900sqf liveable is one thing vs 3 bedrooms in 900sqf built area including balconies.

... Huh. This actually explains something I'd been confused about before; people on this site claiming that a 1000sqft apartment was small. Which, I suppose, if you include the entire footprint of the apartment including balconies, sure. It would never have occurred to me to do it like that.
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