Jordan Pandy

So a lot of people are upset about it, but there are some ways to stop agents from having this happen.

Right, so California just passed Assembly Bill number 723, which requires agents to disclose whether or not they've used any AI or any photo enhancing tools.

And even if they do post it to those, they need to also post the original photo side by side.

So you can see this is what we think it might look like, but here's what it actually looks like.

And not every state has laws like that, but I would imagine that we will be seeing that in the future.

I know that the National Association of Realtors, they have their own ethics code that they need to abide by, which is something similar to that rule in California.

But not every agent is a member of the NAR.

So you're going to have some people that don't really have any rules to follow.

Absolutely.

I think it gives a lot of power to agents.

I spoke with another agent in Oklahoma who says she had to pay photographers hundreds of dollars to take photos, to alter the photos afterwards.

And now she can just do it at on her phone at the fingertips.

I did speak with the photographer and I asked her, are you going to lose any business from this?

And she said, I'm not really worried about it.

She did add AI enhancing to her repertoire of things that she does to properties.

But I think for the most part, a lot of the agents are happy with being able to do this on the fly.

I think that when you're looking for a home, you should be wary of what you're looking at.

That probably has always been the case, but...

When you're looking online, you need to be a little bit more diligent at what you're looking at.

I think for the most part, people now are not buying homes without seeing them, although that did happen a lot, especially during the pandemic.