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When Photoshop Gets Too Good: NYC Mayor Takes Aim at Fake Property Photos
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When Photoshop Gets Too Good: NYC Mayor Takes Aim at Fake Property Photos

The Real Estate Photoshop Problem Nobody Wanted to Talk About I’ve been watching this story unfold, and honestly? It was only a matter of time before someone in government got fed up with landlords using digital manipulation to deceive renters. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just dropped a policy targeting what amounts to the real estate industry’s best-kept secret: making dingy apartments look like luxury penthouses through creative editing and AI enhancement.

The Hidden Cost Of AI-Generated Content In Photoshop And Digital Art
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The Hidden Cost Of AI-Generated Content In Photoshop And Digital Art

I’ve been using Photoshop for almost two decades. I teach it. I write about it on this blog every week. And I want to be honest with you about something that’s been bothering me for a while, because I don’t think enough people in our craft are saying it out loud. The AI tools that shipped in Photoshop over the last two years are genuinely useful. Generative fill, generative expand, neural filters, Sky Replacement, content-aware masking.