Reality check: AI-altered images duping buyers hunting for dream home

The Globe and Mail: AI-generated images have become a common fixture in the homebuying process.

They can be useful – virtually furnishing an apartment to give buyers a sense of what it would be like to move in. But realtors and buyers sayan increasing number of AI images only obfuscate the quality of homes. These ads, like the one Ms. Hollingshead found, hide damage, change landscaping, improve natural lighting and virtually stage an apartment with furniture that would never fit its dimensions…