AI Photo Detector
Check whether a photograph is real or AI-generated. Built for portraits, profile pictures, product shots and news images — the photos people actually need to verify.
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Why photos are the hard case
Generative models got good at faces before they got good at anything else, and the clues that gave early AI portraits away — mangled hands, asymmetric ears, melted jewellery — are largely gone. What remains is subtler, and it lives in the file as much as in the image.
Skin and hair micro-texture
Real skin under any real lighting has uneven pores, fine vellus hair and slight colour mottling. Generated skin tends toward an evenness that reads as flattering rather than wrong — which is exactly why it is easy to miss by eye.
Background falloff
Bokeh in a real lens follows optical rules that vary with distance. Synthesised bokeh is often uniformly smooth, and background objects at different depths blur by the same amount.
Metadata a camera would have written
A photo that came off a phone or camera normally carries make, model, exposure and timestamp. Its absence is not proof — every messaging app strips it — but a complete, self-consistent EXIF block naming a real camera is meaningful evidence in the other direction.
Before you act on a photo result
Photos of people carry consequences that other images do not. Two limits are worth stating plainly, because they are the ones people get burned by.
Screenshot and re-share destroys the evidence. By the time a photo has been through Instagram, WhatsApp or a screenshot, the metadata is gone and the compression artefacts look identical to those of a generated image. A false positive on a re-shared photo of a real person is the most common way this technology misleads people. If a photo came from a social platform, treat every result as low confidence.
Heavy retouching looks like generation. Beauty filters, AI denoise in photo apps, and aggressive portrait-mode processing all remove the same high-frequency detail that detection relies on. A heavily filtered real photograph can score as AI-generated, and frequently does.
Read the accuracy notes before using a result to challenge someone, or see the AI art detector if the image is an illustration rather than a photo.