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How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED
TED Talk ^
| July 18, 2025
| TED Talk
Posted on 08/13/2025 9:46:29 AM PDT by metmom
How do you know if that shocking photo in your feed is real, or just another AI fake? Digital forensics expert Hany Farid explains how he helps journalists, courts and governments find structural errors in AI-generated images, offering four practical tips everyday individuals can use when facing the internet’s war on reality. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 10, 2025)
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; fakes; fauxtography; photography; photos; tedtalk
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posted on
08/13/2025 9:46:29 AM PDT
by
metmom
To: metmom
Sometimes it’s obvious, for instance when you have a group of people pictured and one of them has three legs.
To: metmom
The flying wolf coming in for a landing on duck feet behind the chainmail-clad viking woman in one image I saw a while back was my first clue.
To: EnderWiggin1970
Six fingers on a two-toed sloth
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posted on
08/13/2025 9:52:13 AM PDT
by
Z28.310
(does not comply well with others)
To: Z28.310
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posted on
08/13/2025 9:54:30 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Tell It Right
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posted on
08/13/2025 9:58:32 AM PDT
by
Z28.310
(does not comply well with others)
To: metmom
Does this mean bears don’t really know how to use a trampoline?
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:03:14 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
To: metmom
It’s really simple. Just follow the advice from our 16th president.
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:07:12 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(It's morning in America. Again.)
To: metmom
Ha! I bet they'd claim that it isn't me in this selfie I took...
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:14:35 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: metmom
I was wondering about the sasquatch videos, he was able to talk.
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:25:32 AM PDT
by
Jolla
To: metmom
I thought this was very interesting.
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:27:41 AM PDT
by
econjack
To: BenLurkin
>
Ha! I bet they'd claim that it isn't me in this selfie I took. Well, there is the problem that the young lady with her hand on your chest has two thumbs on that hand.
There's also the wedding band, but maybe that's your wife, and she's polydactyl?
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:28:52 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: metmom
Very informative, thanks for the share, metmom!
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:32:37 AM PDT
by
Frank Drebin
(And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
To: dayglored
Yeah, baby!
Five fingers good. Six fingers...better.
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08/13/2025 10:37:02 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
If that’s a selfie, you must have a long stick.
To: omni-scientist
Well, I don’t want to brag....
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:41:59 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: dayglored
“There’s also the wedding band, but maybe that’s your wife, and she’s polydactyl?”
I’m not sure of the difference between a polydactyl and a pteranodon, but I think I might have seen one as a kid.
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:48:54 AM PDT
by
farm_kid
(Seize a carp a day (carpe per diem))
To: metmom
You mean like THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAKED GIRLS with three fingers and a thumb on each hand? As bad as a beautiful naked girl with two left hands. Whose going to notice?
To: metmom
Couldn’t there be an AI detector?
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:52:04 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Democracy to Demo rats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
To: BenLurkin
>
Five fingers good. Six fingers...better. Just think of all the wonderful things you could do with TWO opposable thumbs on a hand...
Like those nights when you have a date with Rosie, and she brings a girlfriend along...
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posted on
08/13/2025 10:57:47 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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