I think I’ve finally found an AI-generated house that feels just rightPrior to a week or so ago, I had never encountered the term “barndominium” (a portmanteau of “barn” and “condominium”, which describes a barn-like structure used as a residence). Upon logging into a dummy Facebook account for the first time in a few months, however, I was greeted by a large volume of suggested posts from an account with the name “Barndominium Gallery”, each of which featured an AI-generated image of an alleged barndominium. Despite the fact that the buildings depicted are not real, many of these posts rack up significant engagement, and although some commenters question the authenticity of the images, many seem to believe that they are looking at genuine photographs of actual houses.evidently, fake houses make excellent engagement baitAs of February 29th, 2024, the “Barndominium Gallery” Facebook account has accrued roughly 193,000 followers. Almost all of the content posted by the account is AI-generated images of houses, with the exception of a series of posts on January 20th, 2024 featuring photographs of a walkthrough of a real house, and some older content related to a hair salon in Oklahoma. (We’ll revisit the latter aspect shortly.) The artificially generated houses tend to be visually similar to one another, suggesting that similar or identical prompts were used to produce the images.I can’t stop looking at this diffusion model outputThe AI-generated dwellings are accompanied by generic titles such as “I can’t stop looking at this simple barndominium style” or…This barndominium does not exist