AI housefishing?
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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a rising fraudulent trend known in the real estate industry as “housefishing,” where landlords use technology to mask property defects.
I see, so like catfishing but for homes. SMDH.
This really should be considered fraud.
If I advertise something that never has been and never will be, knowingly, that’s fraud.
It is fraud. It's another instance of "this technology is too different, it surely can't be judged by the rules we already have" type of rule-breaking
Uber and Lyft's illegal taxis
The internet's illegal spying
AI's illegal theft and redistribution of IP
You’re right and I’ve a interesting thought experiment I’ve played out here before…
Try and imagine up some groundbreaking new technology. For example, a device that can carbon copy the entire universe and embed you within it as a temporary sandbox environment. It’s literally the entire universe, copied and playing out as a slightly alternate reality, and you get to go in there to do whatever you want.
We currently live in a world that would put profit before important ethical questions like: do the simulated people have rights? Are their experiences as real to them as ours are to us? How can we ever be sure we are any different from them, more “real,” and how would we like it if a god figure popped into our universe just because it could?
We currently live in a world that would soon market this as a technology that lets you live your wildest adventures with no consequences. People would engage in murder, rape, … over and over again. People would defend it, “they aren’t real…”
I like to think a different kind of world is possible… one where the speed of innovation isn’t at odds with the stability of governance. One where a new technology doesn’t risk an arms race because of fear and game theory mechanics. One where you can still get ahead, but your fellow man also helps you from falling behind. One where technology actually serves the majority, like it was first touted to do.
But then I remember we have like 10 years to figure this shit out before the Earth turns into an oven / freezer for the next century.
Yeah I don't understand why it isn't, or maybe it is but getting anyone to do anything is impossible.
I was against Mandani, but the guy has been coming out with good decisions after good decisions for New Yorkers. Yeah, I don't agree with him in a lot, but New York chose him for specific reasons, and the guy is delivering.
What don’t you agree with? He’s been doing exactly what he’s said he wants to do.
When going to a negotiation table you say you want to eat the obscenely rich! Then you negotiate down to just taking their money.
What part are you possibly against? Are you a Republican voter or what is it?
It's been wild watching these do-nothing centrist bastards criticize him as a 'performative' politician, when just in this short period he's been in power, he's delivering on promises and finding practical solutions for things previously thought impossible, like efficient snow removal (and his plan for that was also employed something like 30,000 people temporarily, insane) and a targeted tax on the billionaires.
I am very glad to have been wrong about Mamdani. I thought it was more likely he would go mask off and be another Obama.
What's wrong with being "performative?" What does that even mean anyway? He doesn't really want this stuff, he's just doing it to look good? So what? If it gets done, I'm happy. I like performative.
He balanced the budget: Not really, he had to cut deals, shuffle things, etc. Yeah, no kidding, that's how you balance a budget. It only looks weird to all these politicians because they've never actually done it before.
Or filling potholes: I don't care if it is "performative," all I know is that 6 inch deep pothole that's been growing in front of my building for the last three years is finally filled. "Performative" works just fine for me. More politicians should try it.
What’s wrong with being “performative?”
In this context it means a politician who makes extravagant promises then doesn't fulfill them. Someone like Barack Obama. It's just absurd given Mamdani's diligence so far as mayor.