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The pope in a puffer jacket was funny. The fake Pentagon explosion moved markets. The deeper damage isn't that fakes get believed — it's that real evidence becomes deniable.
EXIF is stripped, ELA misleads, and AI detectors guess. A realistic verification workflow for the provenance era — Content Credentials, SynthID, reverse image search, and the single-source rule.
Anatomy tells fade with every model release, but physics errors persist. A step-by-step audit — light, shadows, reflections, geometry, text — you can run on any suspicious image in half a minute.
For years, counting fingers was the go-to AI detection trick. Modern models have largely fixed hands — so relying on them now gets you fooled. Here are the anatomical tells that still work in 2026.
I generate AI images every day to build ImageGuesser puzzles. Here is what the diffusion process actually looks like from the operator's chair — and why its failures cluster exactly where they do.