{"id":11570,"date":"2026-03-04T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:47:21","slug":"real-or-fake-tips-and-tools-for-identifying-ai-generated-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/04\/real-or-fake-tips-and-tools-for-identifying-ai-generated-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Real or Fake? Tips and Tools for Identifying AI-Generated Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicenews.com\/innovation\/tips-tools-spotting-ai-generated-images\/?utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Today%E2%80%99s+Pick%3A+A+hit+of+nostalgia+-+20922273\">Nice News<\/a> Artificial intelligence imagery is getting harder and harder to spot. In the best case scenario, we end up simply laughing at a funny moment that never actually happened. In the worst case, we buy into misinformation that warps our perception of what\u2019s actually going on in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as technology continues moving at the speed of light, how do we keep up with the changes? Ironically, AI can help with that. As Popular Science&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/how-to-spot-ai-generated-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"points out, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">points out<\/a>, one way to determine if a photo has been produced using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Google\u2019s Gemini, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google\u2019s Gemini<\/a>&nbsp;is to upload the image in Gemini and ask, \u201cWas this picture created with AI?\u201d That\u2019s because every image Gemini creates or edits gets an invisible digital watermark called a SynthID that the AI model can detect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, though, that this works specifically on Gemini with Google AI-created images. When we asked ChatGPT if an image we manipulated with Gemini was AI, the chatbot wasn\u2019t able to detect the SynthID and reported that the picture appeared genuine. And Gemini may have difficulty detecting whether or not an image was created by another AI model. If you\u2019re in doubt, it\u2019s best to take a multi-pronged approach to identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicenews.com\/innovation\/tips-tools-spotting-ai-generated-images\/?utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Today%E2%80%99s+Pick%3A+A+hit+of+nostalgia+-+20922273\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"E kq xrq mX\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice News Artificial intelligence imagery is getting harder and harder to spot. In the best case scenario, we end up simply laughing at a funny moment that never actually happened. In the worst case, we buy into misinformation that warps our perception of what\u2019s actually going on in the world.&nbsp; So, as technology continues moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}