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How Do I Know If a Photo Is AI-Generated?
You saw a striking image online and something feels off. Maybe the lighting is too perfect, maybe a friend swears it is real, and now you are stuck asking the question millions of people type into se…
Why Most AI Humanizers Fail — And What Actually Works
Search for "AI humanizer" and you get hundreds of tools, almost all of them promising the same thing: paste your AI image, video, or text, get back something that sails past every detector. Most of t…
Seven EXIF Metadata Mistakes That Get AI Photos Flagged
EXIF is the cheapest signal a detector has and the most expensive one to fake well. Almost every flagged AI photo we audit has a metadata mistake that would have been a 30 second fix at export time.…
Detecting Sora 2 and Veo 3 — Why the 2026 Telltales Survive Re-Encoding
Two years after Sora's first public release and a year after Veo 3 shipped in Google's consumer stack, AI video is no longer a curiosity — it is a meaningful share of the clips flowing through modera…
Hive Moderation vs Sightengine — What 2026 Image Detectors Actually Check
Hive Moderation and Sightengine are the two AI image detectors most likely to be running between a creator and their audience in 2026. They sit inside Discord moderation pipelines, dating app verific…
Why AI Video Detectors Are Failing in 2026 — A Forensic Breakdown
In 2024, AI video detectors worked well enough to be useful. A trained classifier could spot Sora 1 and Runway Gen 2 output with around 90% accuracy on standard benchmarks, and the public tools — Hiv…
C2PA & Content Credentials Explained — The New Provenance Standard
Content Credentials are the most consequential thing to happen to image authenticity since EXIF, and one of the most widely misunderstood standards on the open web. The press coverage tends to oscill…
How AI Image Detectors Actually Work — A 2026 Technical Guide
AI image detectors look magical from the outside — drop an image, get a percentage, ship the verdict. Inside, they are an assembly of brittle statistical signals stacked on top of each other, each ca…
PRNU, FFT & Sensor Noise — The Forensics Behind Image Authenticity
Image forensics is a small, mathematically dense field that quietly underpins everything from courtroom exhibits to AI detection startups. Three pillars do most of the heavy lifting: PRNU (the sensor…