Practice · spot the AI
Can you tell what's real?
Fake faces, cloned voices, deepfake video, bot reviews and AI news are cheap to make, and scammers use all of them. Train your eye in two-minute rounds, with an explanation of the tells after every answer.
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Real photo or AI-generated?
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Eight ways AI fools people
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Image grid14 free · 11 Real face or AI?
Study portraits, then check the source and limits of visual clues.
Easy 7Medium 7Hard 5Impossible 6all playable media
Photos14 free · 11 Real or AI photo?
Rapid-fire: one photo at a time, real or AI.
Easy 7Medium 7Hard 5Impossible 6all playable media
Video10 free · 10 Spot the AI video
Real, playable clips: Sora, Veo and a Tavus replica vs. phone footage.
Easy 5Medium 5Hard 5Impossible 5some placeholder mediaText10 free · 10Real review or bot?
Product reviews: a real customer or generated filler?
Easy 5Medium 5Hard 5Impossible 5all playable mediaAudio10 free · 10Is this voice real?
Voicemails and calls: a real person or a cloned voice?
Easy 5Medium 5Hard 5Impossible 5some placeholder mediaChats10 free · 10Real DM or scam bot?
Chat threads: a real person or an automated scam?
Easy 5Medium 5Hard 5Impossible 5all playable mediaNews10 free · 10Headline: real news or AI?
Real reporting or AI-generated clickbait?
Easy 5Medium 5Hard 5Impossible 5all playable mediaProfiles10 free · 10Real influencer or AI persona?
Social profiles: a real creator or a generated persona?
Easy 5Medium 5Hard 5Impossible 5all playable media- Easy Obvious tells: bad hands, garbled text, melted backgrounds, scripted pitches.
- Medium Subtler tells you have to look for.
- Hard Only small giveaways.
- Impossible Near-perfect fakes from real, documented cases that fooled experts or went viral. Sources included.
Why practice by eye?
Detection tools miss things and get things wrong, and scams arrive where there's no tool: a phone call, a DM, a voicemail. A trained habit of checking goes everywhere with you.
No single tell is proof
Real photos have glitches and real people sound flat sometimes. Look for several tells, and when money or personal details are involved, verify through a channel you already trust.
Learn the scams behind them
Plain-language lessons on the most common scams, with red flags and what to do instead. Open the learn library.
Then practice for real
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