What is This Rental Does Not Exist?
This Rental Does Not Exist shows what looks like a normal holiday rental listing: a title, room photos, a host with a profile picture, and a description of the place. None of it is real. The bedrooms and the host's face were made by an image AI, and the text was written by a language model.
Christopher Schmidt, a software engineer, built it in February 2019 after seeing Phillip Wang's This Person Does Not Exist. The images come from Nvidia's StyleGAN models, one trained on faces and one on bedrooms, and the text model was trained on real Airbnb listings. A new listing is made every few seconds. Half the fun is spotting the weird details, like melting furniture or descriptions that drift into nonsense.
What You Can Do
- See a new fake rental listing on every refresh
- Look for odd glitches in the AI-made room photos
- Meet a host who has never existed
- Read listing text written by a model trained on Airbnb
- Read how it works on the About page
How to Play This Rental Does Not Exist
- Open thisrentaldoesnotexist.com.
- Look through the photos, host and description.
- Refresh the page to see another listing.
- Visit the About page to learn how it was made.
Is This Rental Does Not Exist Free?
This Rental Does Not Exist is free with no account, ads or purchases.
Who Will Enjoy It?
- People curious about early AI image generation
- Travellers who want to sharpen their fake-listing radar
- Teachers showing how convincing AI content can be
- Anyone who enjoys spotting glitches
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- Which Face Is Real?: Test whether you can spot a StyleGAN face next to a real one.
- This Word Does Not Exist: Another 'does not exist' site, this time for invented words.
- Odd One Out: Find the AI-made image among real ones.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is This Rental Does Not Exist free?
Yes. It is a free website with no sign-up.
Are the rentals real?
No. The photos, host and text are all generated by AI, so none of the places exist.
Who made This Rental Does Not Exist?
Software engineer Christopher Schmidt, in February 2019.