I don't think being intelligent or educated necessarily helps you spot AI slop. It's just a new sort of pattern to learn to recognize.

Everyone who spots more than 0 AI scams will give them false confidence where they can spot them all - "AI slop" yada yada

When in reality, lots of people people will never know the AI ads/scams they missed and fell for, especially if the product recieved is somewhat close.

AI is a lot more invasive than you think it is, as it improves it'll only blur the lines on what's real and what's not and you'll start thinking real things are AI

I could not for the life of me figure out what OP was talking about with tarantulas, so thank you. It's just the shadow of a parking meter.

You discover that it doesn't exist and you have to make last minute alternate arrangements.

Airbnb will try to help you, but if it's during a busy season, you are kinda fucked. Once my airbnb host for a 5 bedroom house cancelled last minute and airbnb was like "don't worry, we can get you alternate accomodations" and recommended me to a field that we could camp at, lol.

You'd probably get refunded by Airbnb, and they'd ultimately pay the monetary price of the scam, but yeah, trying to find a hotel or b&b with space at the last minute would be mega stressful. Worst comes to worst, you sleep in the car.

Yeah... Its also hard to know scale if you are looking at a picture of bare walls but yeah tiny furniture doesn't help.

Also the fish-eye lenses they use don't help

if it were upscaled, it wouldn’t:

• remove the balcony
• remove the stone wall next to the path
• add the mountain in the background
• add a completely wrong shadow for the bus stop

they’re all just straight up fabrications… i’d guess it was a “like this” or “in the style of” request with reference photos

I wonder if anything will be done.

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.