{"id":315,"date":"2026-08-09T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:17","slug":"spot-ai-generated-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/spot-ai-generated-images\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Spot AI Generated Images (When Detectors Can&#8217;t)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1672\" height=\"941\" src=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spot-ai-images-hero.webp\" alt=\"Magnifying glass examining a photograph to spot AI generated images\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spot-ai-images-hero.webp 1672w, https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spot-ai-images-hero-300x169.webp 300w, 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.kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column315_4a81e6-1a\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to spot AI generated images has become genuinely difficult, and most advice about it is a year out of date. The six-fingered hands and melted faces that made 2023 output obvious are largely gone. What replaced them is subtler, and the tools that promise to detect it are far less reliable than their marketing suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This guide covers what actually works in 2026: why detector tools are close to useless, which visual checks still earn their place, and the provenance data that answers the question properly instead of guessing at it. It&#8217;s written for people who need to know rather than people making images: buyers checking a listing, recruiters checking a portfolio, anyone deciding whether a photograph is evidence of anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why AI detector tools fail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start with the uncomfortable number. Independent testing puts automated detector accuracy at roughly&nbsp;<strong>18 to 30%<\/strong>&nbsp;against current-generation models. That isn&#8217;t a passing grade with room to improve; against a binary question it&#8217;s worse than a coin flip, and it fails in both directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">False negatives let generated images through as authentic. False positives, which get discussed far less, flag real photographs as fake, and that&#8217;s the more damaging error. A photographer whose genuine work gets labelled AI by a confident-looking tool has a reputational problem created entirely by software that guessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason is structural rather than fixable. Detectors are trained on the outputs of models that existed when they were built, while generators keep changing. Every new model release resets the detector&#8217;s knowledge, which is why accuracy keeps degrading no matter how many are launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style data-wp-block-html=\"css\">\n.callout {\n    background: #eef3ff;\n    border: 1px solid #d8e3ff;\n    border-radius: 14px;\n    padding: 18px 20px;\n    margin: 24px 0;\n}\n\n.callout strong {\n    color: #3b6cf6;\n    font-weight: bolder;\n}\n\nbody {\n    margin: 0;\n    font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\n    color: var(--text);\n    background: #ffffff;\n    line-height: 1.7;\n    font-size: 18px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"callout\"><strong>The practical rule:<\/strong> treat any detector&#8217;s verdict as one weak signal among several, never as an answer. A tool that says &#8220;94% likely AI&#8221; is not telling you 94% of anything; it&#8217;s telling you what a model that has never seen this generator thinks.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visual checks that still spot AI generated images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manual inspection outperforms detection tools, which is an odd sentence to write in 2026 but holds up. Zoom in and check these, roughly in order of reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text you didn&#8217;t expect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still the fastest tell. Look at background signage, book spines, license plates, product labels, and screens within the image. Models are now good at rendering short text they were asked for, and consistently poor at incidental lettering nobody prompted. Letters that almost form words are the signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflections that disagree<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Underused and very reliable. In a real photograph, the catchlights in both eyes reflect the same light source: same shape, same position, same count. Generated eyes frequently disagree between left and right. Windows, glasses, water, and polished surfaces get the same treatment, since models reproduce the appearance of reflection without simulating the physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hands under stress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple hands are usually fine now. Hands doing something are not: gripping a cup, interlocking with another hand, holding a phone at an angle. Count the fingers, check where the thumb attaches, and look at where the hand meets the object it&#8217;s holding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jewellery, straps, and small hardware<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch faces with impossible hands, earrings that don&#8217;t match between ears, glasses arms that vanish behind hair and reappear in the wrong place, buckles that merge into fabric. These are small areas that receive proportionally less of the model&#8217;s attention, and it shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shadows and repeating texture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trace the shadows: they should all fall away from one light source. Two directions means two suns. Then check patterned surfaces, brick, fabric, foliage, crowds, for visible tiling where the same fragment repeats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1672\" height=\"941\" src=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ai-image-inspection-zones-check.webp\" alt=\"Infographic showing the five areas to check when trying to spot AI generated images\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ai-image-inspection-zones-check.webp 1672w, https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ai-image-inspection-zones-check-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ai-image-inspection-zones-check-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ai-image-inspection-zones-check-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ai-image-inspection-zones-check-1536x864.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1672px) 100vw, 1672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One caveat worth stating plainly: these tells are disappearing. Each one on this list was more reliable a year ago than it is today, and some will be gone within another year. Which is why the next section matters more than this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Provenance beats guessing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real answer to &#8220;was this generated?&#8221; isn&#8217;t inspection at all. It&#8217;s metadata that records how the file was made, cryptographically signed at the point of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c2pa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C2PA standard<\/a>&nbsp;(Content Credentials) is the version with genuine industry adoption. Major generators embed it automatically, camera manufacturers and editing tools are adding support, and it travels inside the file rather than depending on anyone&#8217;s guess. Google&#8217;s SynthID watermarking does something similar for content from its own models, and following announcements in May 2026, Chrome and Google Search have begun surfacing these signals to users directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to use it: many image tools and browser features can display Content Credentials when present, showing whether an image was generated, which model produced it, and what edits were applied afterwards. When the data is there, it settles the question definitively in a way no visual inspection can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gap, and it&#8217;s a real one: credentials can be stripped. Screenshot an image, or re-save it through a tool that doesn&#8217;t preserve metadata, and the provenance vanishes. So the absence of credentials proves nothing at all, while their presence is strong evidence. That asymmetry is the single most useful thing to understand about verification in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What reverse image search actually catches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running an image through Google Lens, TinEye, or Bing Visual Search won&#8217;t tell you whether it was generated. It catches something else that&#8217;s becoming more common than wholesale fakery:&nbsp;<strong>real photographs with generated elements added<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a search surfaces the same base photograph circulating elsewhere without the element in question, you&#8217;ve found manipulation rather than generation. That&#8217;s the pattern behind most misleading images now, since a composite of a real scene is more persuasive than a fully invented one, and it&#8217;s invisible to both detectors and visual inspection of the untouched parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A verification routine, scaled to the stakes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not every image deserves the same scrutiny. Match the effort to what&#8217;s riding on it.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-table-container315_543989-2d{overflow-x:auto;}.kb-table-container .kb-table315_543989-2d th{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);text-align:center;}.kb-table-container .kb-table315_543989-2d caption{text-align:center;}.kb-table-container .kb-table315_543989-2d td{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);text-align:left;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-table-container kb-table-container315_543989-2d wp-block-kadence-table\"><table class=\"kb-table kb-table315_543989-2d\">\n<tr class=\"kb-table-row kb-table-row315_f93f21-ab\">\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_6a9fc9-cd\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Situation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_afb97f-ea\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What to do<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"kb-table-row kb-table-row315_902e08-38\">\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_fed4d0-0e\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casual browsing<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_2b1be7-f6\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing. It doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"kb-table-row kb-table-row315_a678f7-45\">\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_1ea29e-8c\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marketplace listing before buying<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_0d0d66-6d\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom on the product&#8217;s text and hardware; reverse image search for the same photo on other listings<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"kb-table-row kb-table-row315_300358-5f\">\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_28d2f4-bb\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portfolio or a hiring decision<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_c4bb72-57\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check credentials, inspect hands and reflections, reverse search a sample, and ask the person directly<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"kb-table-row kb-table-row315_9ea01e-d8\">\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_045be5-49\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dating or social profile<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_1e2f5d-26\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reverse image search first; it catches stolen photos more often than generated ones<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"kb-table-row kb-table-row315_759da9-60\">\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_2b5aaf-ba\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News or evidence of an event<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td  class=\"kb-table-data kb-table-data315_72efcf-8f\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Provenance data plus original source plus corroborating coverage. Visual inspection alone is not enough<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the middle rows, opening the image at full size and zooming to 100% is most of the work. Any editor will do it, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/photo-editor\">ours<\/a>, and inspecting at actual pixels reveals the tells that vanish in a thumbnail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style data-wp-block-html=\"css\">\n.cta-box {\n    background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3b6cf6, #6a4cf0);\n    color: #fff;\n    border-radius: 18px;\n    padding: 28px;\n    margin: 34px 0;\n    text-align: center;\n}\n\n.cta-box a {\n    background: #fff;\n    color: #3b6cf6;\n    font-weight: 700;\n    padding: 12px 22px;\n    border-radius: 999px;\n    display: inline-block;\n}\n\na:-webkit-any-link\nSpecificity: (0,1,1)\n {\n    cursor: pointer;\n}\n\na {\n    color: #3b6cf6;\n    text-decoration: none;\n}\n\n.cta-box h3 {\n    margin: 0 0 8px;\n    color: #fff;\n    font-size: 22px;\n}\n\nbody {\n    margin: 0;\n    font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\n    background: #ffffff;\n    line-height: 1.7;\n    font-size: 18px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"cta-box\">\n\n<h3>\nInspect any image at full size\n<\/h3>\n\n<p>\nOpen, zoom to 100%, and check the details that thumbnails hide. Free, in your browser.\n<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/photo-editor\">Open the ArtsFlick Photo Editor\n<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you genuinely cannot know<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An honest guide has to include this part. For a well-made image from a current model, with credentials stripped and no reverse-search matches, there is often no reliable way to determine origin from the file alone. Confident claims otherwise, from tools or from people, are overstating what&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which changes what the right question is. Instead of &#8220;is this AI?&#8221;, ask &#8220;does the source vouch for it?&#8221; A photograph from a named photographer, a publication with a corrections policy, or a seller with a returns guarantee carries accountability that no pixel-level analysis provides. Provenance in the human sense outlives provenance in the metadata sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you&#8217;re publishing rather than verifying, the same logic runs in reverse: keep your credentials intact, say when something is generated, and let your images be checkable. As we covered in our look at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artsflick.com\/blog\/anti-ai-aesthetic\/\">why imperfect images are winning<\/a>, verifiable authenticity is becoming the scarcer asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:10px;}.kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;background:#ffffff;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header{border-top:1px solid #e7eaf0;border-right:1px solid 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.kt-blocks-accordion-header{border-top:1px solid #e7eaf0;border-right:1px solid #e7eaf0;border-bottom:1px solid #e7eaf0;border-left:1px solid #e7eaf0;}.kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header:hover, \n\t\t\t\tbody:not(.hide-focus-outline) .kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible{border-top:1px solid #878787;border-right:1px solid #878787;border-bottom:1px solid #878787;border-left:1px solid #878787;}.kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header:focus-visible,\n\t\t\t\t.kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top:1px solid #878787;border-right:1px solid #878787;border-bottom:1px solid #878787;border-left:1px solid #878787;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id315_94d4c8-6b kt-accordion-has-10-panes kt-active-pane-0 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-basic kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"true\" data-start-open=\"none\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-1 kt-pane315_563cdc-8a\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Do AI image detectors actually work?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not reliably. Independent testing puts accuracy around 18 to 30% against current models, and they produce false positives that wrongly flag real photographs as generated. Treat any detector result as one weak signal, never as an answer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-2 kt-pane315_fcbb2c-9f\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">What is the fastest way to spot an AI generated image?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom in on any text you didn&#8217;t expect to be there: background signs, book spines, labels, license plates. Models render prompted text well and incidental text badly, so letters that almost form words remain the quickest tell.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-3 kt-pane315_e0755c-68\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">What are Content Credentials and how do I check them?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Content Credentials (the C2PA standard) are signed metadata recording how an image was made and edited. Many editing tools and browser features can display them when present. Their presence is strong evidence; their absence proves nothing, since credentials can be stripped by screenshotting or re-saving.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-4 kt-pane315_5c0e0f-1c\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Does reverse image search detect AI images?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, but it catches something related: real photos with generated elements added. If the same base photograph appears elsewhere without the element you&#8217;re questioning, that&#8217;s evidence of manipulation rather than generation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-9 kt-pane315_e075c3-04\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Are the old tells like extra fingers still useful?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less each year. Simple hands are usually correct in current models; hands gripping or interacting with objects still fail more often. Reflections in eyes and incidental background text have aged better as tells, but all of them are weakening.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-10 kt-pane315_911cb0-67\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Can you always tell if an image is AI generated?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. For a well-made image from a current model with metadata stripped, there is often no reliable way to determine origin from the file alone. 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