Look at the each image below. 

Decide whether you think it was AI-generated.

Then click the image for the answer.

These tips won't always work

It's important to know that AI-generated media tools are improving rapidly. So these tips won't always work as the outputs get more and more realistic.

• New research is finding ways to improve how hands and fingers are generated.
• Image generators are getting better at generating text within images.

Left = too many fingers, Right = corrected From this research paper: AI hand-refiner.	Some tools CAN generate correct text (most of the time). Made with Ideogram.

Other ways to check

If you see an image online and you suspect it may be AI generated, there are a couple of other ways to investigate.

1. Use the Content Credentials website to look for metadata that indicates the origin of the image. Upload an image and it will tell you if it's been generated by Adobe, Microsoft, or OpenAI.

Here's a result showing that this image was generated.

However, not all image generators include this metadata.

So this will only work for some images. If it shows a content credential you know it was generated, but if it doesn't, you don't know whether it was generated with AI or not.

And if someone makes a screen capture of an image, the content credentials will no longer be there.

Here's an image made with Ideogram, a generator that doesn't include Content Credentials.

2. Another way to investigate, is to use a reverse image search tool to find other copies of the image in question. This can help you verify that an image is not AI-generated, and sometimes that it is AI-generated.

Try Google Images or TinEye (or both). Upload the image in question and it will show websites that contain that exact image and also similar images.

For example, if you see a photo online and think it might be AI-generated, you could upload it to Google images and find other sites that contain it.

If it's not AI-generated, it will likely be found on more than one website, such as news sites reporting on a story with that image.

This image might be AI-generated

It looks rather odd. Maybe it was made with AI.

But it's not AI-generated.

You can see in these reverse image search results, that it's not AI-generated. There are several websites discussing this art project involving inflatable clowns in Boston's Downtown Crossing. You can see photos of it from different angles.

Reverse image search could also help if it was AI-generated

You might get lucky and find other copies of an AI-generated image that are clearly marked as made with AI. There are many social media groups where people share AI-generated works and you might find your image there, confirming that it's AI-generated.