About the work

A closer look.

Send me one image and I tell you how it reads to a careful eye, and where the tells are. Most people are at or below chance on AI faces (Nightingale and Farid, PNAS 2022: 315 people, 800 faces, 48.2 percent). So I do not trust a vibe. I look at the tells that actually carry weight: hands, teeth, jewelry, text, glasses, background symmetry, repeating textures, and the seams where an edit was stitched. What comes back: an honest read with the specific regions that gave it away, and the one thing that would settle it if the image is borderline. I tell you when an image simply cannot be judged from the pixels alone, because that is the true answer more often than people want. Keywords: AI image, AI-generated photo, is this photo real, deepfake check, AI or real, fake photo. About 2 days. One revision. Digital, reviewable.