MLSs Living Life on a Slippery Slope
It could imply that certain decisions or changes could set a precedent or trigger a series of consequences that are difficult to control or reverse, potentially impacting the industry in a negative way.
REAL AI: KW and practical AI, AI washing, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 38 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. KW and practical AI At the burgeoning Blueprint VC-tech conference in Las Vegas this week, I had a chance to meet with Chris Cox, Chief Technology and Digital Officer at Keller Williams. KW is the world's largest real estate franchise by agent count, with over [...]
REAL AI: Free AI image creation, 5 ways agents can use image generators, facts, headlines, and AI Quote of the Week GalleryREAL AI: Free AI image creation, 5 ways agents can use image generators, facts, headlines, and AI Quote of the Week
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REAL AI: Free AI image creation, 5 ways agents can use image generators, facts, headlines, and AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 29 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered to your inbox every Monday. Joining the AI image generator movement Have you noticed that the photo or image atop your favorite news story or feature often is crediting Midjourney? Chances are it used to say Adobe Stock, Getty Images, or a similar paid licensing image site. You will still [...]
Real AI: AI avatars to attend meetings, AI “good or bad” debate continues, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 23 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. Images are AI + human generated. Will AI avatars attend meetings for you? File this one under "please don't." Sometimes, just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should. Someone needs to tell Google and Zoom that – and pronto! Both firms are working on AI avatars that will attend meetings for us. The initial results are frightening, [...]
An Unstoppable Legend: Ben Caballero Remains America’s Top-Performing Real Estate Agent GalleryAn Unstoppable Legend: Ben Caballero Remains America’s Top-Performing Real Estate Agent
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An Unstoppable Legend: Ben Caballero Remains America’s Top-Performing Real Estate Agent
Ben Caballero is an improbable and incomparable real estate legend. How can an individual real estate agent based in Texas sell an average of more than 19 homes daily, every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays? Again, 19 homes a day, times 365 days last year, would be 6,935 home sales. Ben sold 7,012 homes in 2023. He is the sole listing agent on every sale, verified by every Multiple Listing Service he works with in Texas. He does not work with any other agent or team at HomesUSA.com, the brokerage where he also is CEO and founder. [...]
Real AI: AI will make the big, bigger, latest AI trends, headlines, fast facts and AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 15 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. AI will make the big, bigger Today, AI is in the business news headlines everywhere you look. Within 12 hours this week, OpenAI, Google, and Meta announced new AI versions. The French AI startup Mistral also released its latest version. Meta is launching its third version of Llama. Google released Gemini Pro 1.5 at Google Next 24. OpenAI issued its final [...]
Real AI: Is AI another boys’ club? Ode to Otter, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 12 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. Does AI have a gender problem? As a long-time advocate of gender parity, an email in my inbox this week from Laura Meli with Girls Who Code asked this question as its subject line: “Is AI another boys’ club?” The email immediately notes that technological innovation and progress demand diverse perspectives, adding, “This is especially true in the field of [...]
Real AI: How current are the Chatbots, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 11 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. How current are the Chatbots ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Pi? A client recently asked what seemed to be a pretty straightforward question about AI chatbots. “What is the most accurate and up-to-date AI engine available for content?” The truth is there is no easy answer to this question. First, the leading Chatbots continually improve through iteration and new training data. [...]
Clareity24 Recap: From AI and cybersecurity to legal eagles and legends, this sold-out conference had it all
Kevin Greene, Executive, General Manager of CoreLogic's Real Estate Solutions With a new venue, fresh, cutting-edge content, a stellar lineup of industry experts, thought leaders, and legends – plus a sellout crowd featuring the Who's Who of the MLS world – all the right ingredients were in place to make this year's CoreLogic Clareity24 a best-yet event. And it delivered that – and much more. Kicking off 2024 Clareity24 marked the inaugural event for Kevin Greene, the newly announced leader of CoreLogic's Real Estate Solutions group, as its new Executive, General Manager. Kevin's been a mainstay at Clareity [...]
Real AI: AI ads are coming, Say hi to Pi, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 10 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. AI ads are coming My first journalism boss was the late, great Jeffery Weiss, managing editor at the Miami Hurricane, our University of Miami newspaper that was printed at the Miami Herald back in the day. Jeffery had two signs on his desk – a desk that was stacked with piles of papers a foot high covering the entire top [...]
The MLS Copyright of Listings Challenge: Understanding the Balance Between Copyright Infringement and Fair Use
The realm of copyright law is a delicate balance between protecting the rights of brokers and fostering the dissemination of aggregated listings.
AI is a vital part of CoreLogic’s new Clareity Assure security platform for MLSs GalleryAI is a vital part of CoreLogic’s new Clareity Assure security platform for MLSs
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AI is a vital part of CoreLogic’s new Clareity Assure security platform for MLSs
Today, CoreLogic launched a vital and timely new security platform – Clareity Assure – now available to integrate as a front door to all MLS systems regardless of vendor. It is precisely the kind of protection MLSs need and must have in place. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning for its adaptive authentication protection. It can identify suspicious activity and, most importantly, selectively deploy multi-factor authentication. By monitoring login activity in real time, it can automatically detect when login exceeds an acceptable risk threshold. Last year was a wakeup call for MLSs and security. The timing by CoreLogic could not [...]