How To Detect AI Generated Images

0:00 as AI gets better and better it may seem harder and harder to tell what's real and what isn't but not all hope is lost here's how you can tell the difference between the real and the computer generated first off your eyes alone are a great tool the devil really is in the tiny details with AI one too many fingers asymmetrical jewelry or subjects with flawless skin at first glance this image created by mid Journey looks like someone promoting a cookbook on Insta but upon further inspection you can see the contorted sugar jar warped Knuckles and skin that's just a little too smooth here's another example Google's image in

0:47 3 created this image of Volkswagen Vans parading down a beach the sand and buses look flawlessly photorealistic but look closer can you see the gobletg lettering where the iconic VW logo should be how about those aor splotches on the fourth bus so maybe your eyes aren't so great at doing the whole seeing thing some Studies have shown that it's about a 50/50 chance that a human person can dedi a generated picture don't fret there are also some minimal to low effort websites you can use for a little assistance here's one you might already be familiar with the good old reverse image search by uploading a pick to Google images or a reverse image search tool you can trace the provenance of the image Google

1:32 search also has an about this image feature that provides a lot of legitimate information like when the image was first indexed and where else it appeared online once in a while you might come across an image or video that you nor the online engine can't clock for certain that's when you turn to these AI image detectors these tools use computer vision to examine pixel patterns and determine the likelihood of an image being AI generated wait a sec a computer detect ing computer generated stuff sounds kind of fishy right like aren't they kind of on the same team yes which is why AI detectors aren't completely foolproof but it's a good way for the average person to determine whether an image merits some scrutiny

2:18 especially when it's not immediately obvious we tested a bunch of these detectors with the same AI images to see if they're up to Snuff AI or not is a tool that gives a simple yes or no answer so we try with 10 images and got an 80% success rate not bad but not perfect next up was Hive moderations free demo tool and it got a 90% overall success rate however it failed to detect in an artificial image of a chipmunk Army scaling a rock wall as much as I wish that was real alas it is not illuminarti has a free plan that provides basic AI image detection it got only 50% right and to the horror of

3:05 rodent biologists it gave the infamous rat dick image a low probability of being AI generated so listen are we living in an incredible time with mindboggling technology at our fingertips absolutely but if movies have taught us anything it's that technology can't always be trusted the key to living in a rapidly advancing online world is staying up on your AI literacy none of the aformentioned methods will be used ful if you don't first take a pause particularly on social media and wonder hey could this be AI generated experts often talk about AI images in the context of hoaxes and misinformation but they aren't always out to get you sometimes they're just jokes or memes removed from their original context or

3:52 just lazy advertising or maybe they're just a form of creative expression with an intriguing new technology but For Better or Worse AI images are a fact of life now and it's up to you to detect them