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In concerning news for renters, Australia’s most influential governing body for real estate agents is petitioning for the ban of ChatGPT.
The news comes as PRICKS (Property, Realtor and Investment Consultants Kingpins) have publicly put the AI chat model on blast, for helping povo tenants argue against rent increases.
As renters across the country continue to bear the brunt of yearly, sometimes twice-yearly price increases, it’s believed many young Aussies, particularly students, have turned to AI to help them write firmly worded emails that contest the greedy hikes.
Speaking to 25-year-old nursing student Claude Atkins, ChatGPT has successfully managed to help her straight bat not one, but three separate attempts to jack her rent up by $30 a week.
“The technology is crazy, I simply tell the program to pretend it’s a high-end lawyer with thorough knowledge of tenancy laws, then I get it to write me a two page rebuttal against any rent hike.”
“The one it did recently even spat out fancy sounding things like the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW) and the Fair Trading guidelines, plus it referenced a bunch of criminal cases at the end of the email, just to add some jazz.”
“It’s funny, as soon as a real estate agent sees any email with legal references through it, it’s like they simply switch off in fear they might need to actually do some proper work.”
Speaking to the secretary of PRICKS, Henry Harcourts (36), the governing body says the use of ChatGPT by crafty renters isn’t fair given the real estate sector hasn’t had a chance to develop it’s own AI model.
“Nah it’s not on, it’s simply cheating using AI in a rental discussion!” whinges Henry.
“Sure, most of us rental agents use Chat to write our websites, our listings and even the slop we post on LinkedIn, but that’s different to what these scummy renters are using it for. We use it for useful things!”
