Field notes on spotting AI content

How detection actually works, where it breaks, and what a score is worth.

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How to tell if an image is AI-generated

The obvious tells — six fingers, garbled text — are mostly gone. Here is what still works, what does not, and how to combine checks instead of trusting any one of them.

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How to spot a deepfake video

Two different problems wear the same name: a real video with a swapped face, and a clip generated whole from a prompt. They fail in different ways — here is how each one shows.

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