AI image-generation signal screening Text · Image · Video

How can you tell whether an image is AI-generated?

Choose an original image and confirm the upload notice to check generator metadata, C2PA and model signals. Screenshots and compression can remove evidence; uncertain results remain inconclusive.

  • Three content types
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  • Evidence you can inspect

Content screening and verification

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Results separate heuristic screening signals, file facts, and evidence limitations.

Image content

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Automatically checks generator metadata, provenance credentials and model signals, with consent before server analysis.

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Server analysis requires confirmation of the upload and processing notice

Image detection guide

How to tell whether an image is AI-generated

Check the original file for generation claims and content credentials, then review pixel signals and provenance. Only an explicit AI claim that is verified, trusted and bound to the file supports an origin conclusion.

Use the original image when possible

Original dimensions and lightly compressed files preserve color, luminance, adjacent-pixel, and file information better than social-platform screenshots.

Read the human verification guide

Review local and global features

Limited color, excessive smoothness, and unusual noise may come from generation, editing, or compression, so visual signals should be considered together.

Read methodology and limitations

Check metadata and provenance

Metadata can be forged or removed. A C2PA signature chain also needs a trusted signer and a relevant claim. Missing credentials do not prove a photo is real; check the author and reverse-image search results.

Review accuracy and false positives

Detection methods

What signals does AI content detection examine?

Each content type needs a different analysis. GenDetect separates screening signals, file facts, and limitations.

AI image detection

Checks original-file metadata, provenance credentials and model signals. Unverified claims and uncalibrated scores remain supporting clues.

Open image detector

Video-frame and metadata screening

Server analysis checks at most six frames of videos up to 120 seconds. It does not inspect audio or temporal continuity, and a negative result does not establish human origin.

Open video detector

How to read the score

The screening index is a rule anomaly score, not a source probability.

This demo locally aggregates heuristics for text, images, and sampled video frames; images also check known generator metadata. The index is not trained or probability-calibrated and cannot prove origin.

Frequently asked questions

AI image detector FAQ

Learn what screenshots and compression remove, which visual signals are checked, and why a specific model such as Midjourney cannot be attributed reliably.

Does a screenshot, crop, or compression affect AI image detection?

Yes. Screenshots, crops, filters, and platform compression change pixel color, luminance, and adjacent edges and may remove metadata. Prefer the original image whenever it is available.

Which visual signals does an AI image detector examine?

This demo calculates sampled color diversity, average brightness, luminance variance, and adjacent-pixel edge density. Camera processing, editing, or compression can produce similar visual signals.

Can this detector tell whether Midjourney or DALL-E made an image?

A file may retain an OpenAI, DALL-E, Google AI, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney or similar generator marker. The tool attempts to validate the C2PA signature chain, but ordinary metadata can be forged or removed. Only a trusted, file-bound claim supports an origin conclusion; it cannot reliably infer an undeclared specific model.