Real Estate Agency’s Choice of A.I Generated Furniture Deeply Depressing

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT

A local woman is questioning it all today as she scrolls the dire state of the rental market.

Parked on the couch of her freezing sharehouse, with nothing but the warmth of her overheating laptop to keep her legs toasty, 28 year old Ella Wilcotts is multiple Google Chrome tabs deep into finding a new place to live.

With her sharehouse lease up in the coming weeks, Ella has decided to start dreaming of renting out a nice one bedder, in a suburb that’s not more than a 45 minute commute from her city office.

But as she clicks onto another shithole, advertised for a cool $640 a week, Ella’s face grimaced as she immediately clocked that the listing was using AI generated furniture to make it seem like it was livable.

“What is it with this AI crap?” Ella swore, as she squinted at all of the furniture that had been staged in the living room.

“The dining table has three legs, the couch is floating in mid air and I’m pretty sure the place doesn’t come with a 65” HD TV mounted flush to the wall.”

Having spent her free evening looking at all the available properties online, Ella has told The Advocate that it’s particularly troubling that all the rentals in her budget seem to be getting curated by agencies who have terrible taste in furniture, even if it is AI.

“It’s not just that it’s AI, it’s that the AI makes the places look even cheaper and tackier than if they were empty.”

“Every agency I’ve clicked through seems to love filling the bedrooms with those rattan-look bedside tables from Anko, the ones that were in vogue about five years ago.”

“There’s no way any of those $39 bundles of sticks are still standing, they’ve all been put out to council pickup to dissolve in the rain by now.”