It's super annoying, but this is a total nothing burger because he doesn't actually have any power to do anything here.
This has also been a problem long before AI with "virtually staged" apartments.
Why are you so certain of this? Oh it was a problem before so we should just keep doing nothing even though it will almost certainly become exponentially worse with AI? Love this plan.
> he doesn't actually have any power to do anything here.
Landlords in nyc are doing business in nyc, which means the city can regulate them, does it not?