DOES AI believe we are all rich? Or, at least, living in very good value for money homes?
In either case, there is a gap between what artificial intelligence thinks a typical Hobart home looks like compared to reality.
Although, sometimes it gets remarkably close.
Putting AI’s imagination to the test, the Mercury used ChatGPT to create images of some typical houses at their suburb’s median price.
Based on this basic prompt for a number of neighbourhoods around the city, the results varied from spot-on to wildly off the mark.
A common trend, though, was that in many suburbs AI produced images of flashy, sleek, large, expensive-looking, double-storey houses. Guess Hobart residents are quite wealthy in AI’s eyes, hey?
Here’s what we’ve found.
BATTERY POINT $1.325m
FINE, I’ll admit it. This was the first one I punched into the chatbot and the result knocked me off my …