The virtual-staging disclosure line
Lesson 5 of 6 · Listing photography with AI
1 · Learn the move · Constraints + negative instructions
If you stage, sky-swap, or twilight a photo, you owe a disclosure. A 'Virtually Staged' watermark on the image, a line in the remarks, and in California (AB 723, effective Jan 1 2026) access to the unaltered original. The hard part is that the rule branches by state, so the prompt has to carry the logic: California owes the originals clause now, Wisconsin from 2027, everyone else the best-practice version. The skill is the constraint list plus that branch. What the line must include, what it must never claim, and how it changes by state. You want the compliant line, not the clever one.
Write the disclosure language for a listing with 3 virtually staged rooms and a day-to-dusk exterior edit: one remarks line, a photo caption, and a note to keep originals. Say what's required, oversell nothing.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You virtually staged three empty rooms and did a day-to-dusk edit on the exterior. You need the disclosure language for the MLS remarks and the photo captions before you publish. Write a prompt that produces compliant disclosure text, states what's required, and never oversells the edits.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
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