By Freddy Pawle For Daily Mail Australia
06:09 06 Mar 2024, updated 06:09 06 Mar 2024
Aussie renters have taken aim at a ‘lazy’ real estate agent who was caught using an AI text generator to write descriptions for rental properties.
Not only was the description for 17 Sunburst Avenue in Balwyn North, East Melbourne, written by ChatGPT, it also featured a description for a different property at 7 Stony Street, about 50km west in Wyndham Vale.
Maximum List estate agent Sienna Toso had forgotten to remove several prompts to the chat bot from the description.
‘Please help me rewrite a rental advertisement for 7 Stony Street, Manor Lakes. It has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car spots, alfresco, etc,’ her first prompt read.
The listing was updated on Wednesday morning to properly reflect the $900 per week home, but not before social media users ripped into the agent.
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After a single sentence describing the ‘sun-drenched double-storey’ home as ‘the epitome of family living’ the rest of the description was provided for by ChatGPT.
Despite Ms Toso only providing a minimal amount of information, the chatbot replied: ‘Certainly! Here’s a rewritten rental advertisement for 7Stony Street, Manor Lakes’.
Adding further details, ChatGPT described the home as a ‘spacious and modern residence’ with a ‘modern kitchen’ and an ‘inviting alfresco area, perfect for entertaining guests’.
The chatbot also gave Ms Toso areas to fill in such as the weekly rent and when it’s available from, however they were left blank.
‘Rent: $XXXX per month. Available: (Insert Availability Date). For more information or to schedule a private viewing, please contact (Your Contact Information),’ the listing read.
‘Feel free to customise the rent amount and availability date according to your specific requirements.’
The description also appears to show Ms Toso prompting ChatGPT to rewrite the property’s listing description by an agent from another agency when it was previously listed for sale in October.
She then went on to ask the AI to write a description for the advertised property, before adding the entire back-and-forth to the description and saving it.
Daily Mail Australia contacted Maximum List for comment.
A user on X posted a link to the property listing, saying real estate agents are ‘now so lazy they’re resorting to ChatGPT’.
‘The more I look at it the funnier it gets given it’s not even the same f***ing place that they’re advertising,’ she wrote.
‘Honestly mind blowing’.
Rental advocate Jordie Van De Berg said the situation was ‘f***ing hilarious’.
Another social media user commented: ‘Not only is it a different property, it’s in a much less wealthy neighbourhood about as far across the other side of town as Melbourne goes.’
‘Just unbelievable work.’
‘They don’t even list the features for ChatGPT to describe,’ another wrote.
‘Just make it up AI. Go for glory.’