How to spot a face swap in a photo
A swapped face sits inside a genuine photograph, which is why whole-image scores miss it. What to look for by eye, and what the region grid shows instead.
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Read the evidence properly.
Practical writing about image provenance and synthetic media: which signals survive the internet, which ones never did, and how to reach a conclusion you can defend.
How to tell if a photo is AI-generated
Four ways to check whether a picture came out of a camera or a model, what each one proves, and the order to try them in when it actually matters.
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Two pictures can share a headline number and mean opposite things. The region grid is what separates a wholly generated frame from a real photo with one edit.
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Genuine photographs score high more often than most detectors admit. Here is what causes it, why the middle band exists, and how to get a fairer reading.
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