JustTestingLooking for a holiday apartment to celebrate my wife's birthday, came across one with AI pictures
dumnezeroI don’t even know that this is a scam, or just a very misguided attempt by someone to make nicer pictures of their place. At least going by the original posting, it could well be that it actually exists and is not a bad place. Not that I’d ever go for this.
Some of the other pictures are just as weird, e.g. all the reflections of the bathroom mirror just don’t make sense (in terms of brightness/clarity)
If they get a cut of the booking cost, then they have no incentive to dissuade listing creators from doing whatever the fuck they can to get renters to pull out the credit card.
They already have your money by the time you arrive at your rental and realize the listing was complete horseshit. Most people either can’t or won’t change their planned accomodations that late in their trip.
So you stay in your falsely advertised hovel and complain to the booking company afterward, who says, “we don’t create the listings, inaccuracies in them aren’t our fault.”
Nothing will change until the problem is pervasive enough that bookings drop as a result AND the reduced revenue is correctly attributed to it by shareholders AND they pressure the C-suite to implement policy changes accordingly.