This Airbnb Does Not Exist uses real Airbnb listings to make computer generated fakes.
Christopher Schmidt created a website full of eerily real Airbnb listings using machine learning. “A new website called This Airbnb Does Not Exist uses machine learning to whip up plausible-yet-slightly-incoherent apartment listings — from a description to ersatz photos of the interior,” Jon Christian writes for Futurism.
While some of these listings look silly, many of them are completely plausible. By using the examples from real listings, these machines have crafted some canny knock offs.
FULL STORY: This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings
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