The short answer is yes! I do some amateur photography (with an actual camera) and then some photo program processing to "clean up" certain pics.  
For better or worse, new phones have made it so easy to edit pics immediately, and the results are amazing.  The downside is that many of the escort ad pics have little resemblance to the reality.  The filters and processing make it simple to smooth out skin, remove blemishes and tattoos, change eye color. Even something as simple as changing the exposure can dramatically change someone's overall look.
I have met with ladies whose photos were actually real but so edited that I was not sure who I was meeting.  Sometimes they looked as good or better, a few times not so much.    
There is one high end provider here I will not name, who is also on other platforms. I have seen her photos / videos without all the filters.  Her extreme editing makes her not only look like a different person, but a different ethnicity.

Period.
AI makes it easier, but providers have been doctoring images long before AI was available.
So answering the questions, no I don't trust/distrust any more than before AI.
When I see only Playboy photo-shoot quality images, I tend to avoid rather than deal with disappointment at the door.

Ai just cut out the middleman in the form of photoshop versed person who would do it for sellers.  

 
This of course means that doctoring is accessible to anyone who wants to doctor/mislead/exaggerate and not just those who can afford it or wiling go through the hoops trying to hire someone to do it for them.

 
I think most in this hobby who have seen many a provider would be skeptical towards most photos, just off experience.

 
Back in the day in early 2000s when I was in high school I was one of few people in my class that had a photoshop copy (pirated ofc) and had some experience in it albeit crude. I once did a few layered crude projects and everyone thought I was some kind of wizard.

 
Now you just tell some llm to do what you want without using lasso tool and deal with pixel groups layers filters and crap like that.

Obviously if a layer of complexity and opportunity cost is removed, and it's easy and effectively free to doctor your ad pics, there's more incentive for sellers to do it.

 
It's just like I stop trusting crazy short videos on YouTube after sora2 came out. I'm sure some of them are actually nonai, but I'm not interested in deciphering AI artifacts to distinguish reality from someone who wants to pass off fiction as reality.

This is really easy to remedy. Request and pay for a cam show before you invest in TOFTT. There's no AI that I know of for that. Correct me if I'm wrong. It's a win-win. The provider gets to make a lil extra cash without too much work, and technically screen this way too. Police don't show their cocks... Also, if you're going for GFE, it is kinda like a first date.

And you can SEE what the provider looks like in real life. Chances are that every provider with a website is also on a cam site. IJS.  

 
It's almost 2026, and TER is just discovering this plan of attack? That can't be right.  

 
Happy Hobbying,
Katie

It is relatively easy to edit photos these days to seek perfection, which may or may not resemble the original image. However, in my opinion, this is not comparable to engaging the services of a skilled professional photographer.   My photos are not edited, only lightly finished as they are the result of good lighting and flattering poses.  My photo shoot was a mini workout, where I engaged muscles as I held my body in positions I was unaccustomed to for extended periods while my photographer got the shot “just right”.   So you are still seeing me, just presented in my best light.