N.S. woman says duct-cleaning company used AI-generated photos to fake work
“It was still filthy. All the dirt was still in that section where the filter goes.”
What happened
A Dartmouth, Nova Scotia homeowner says a duct-cleaning crew showed her an "after" photo of a spotless blower motor, and she later found the ducts still dirty. A University at Buffalo AI researcher told Global News the photo carried a Google watermark used to identify AI-generated images; the company denied wrongdoing to her and did not respond to the outlet, and she got her $300 back.