10 little ways to tell if a photo or video is AI (for now)

Published March 18, 2025

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Huff Post quotes Siwei Lyu in an article about how to tell if photos and videos are AI-generated. Discerning this is important, especially in a day and age where “we get so much of our information from social media, it’s basically our primary way of understanding what is happening around us or on the far side of the world,” said Lyu. “The world is so connected, yet we are not able to physically present at every important event. We rely so much on audio visual information from social media to tell us what happened. So anybody, if they have the ability to manipulate the images or videos, can influence our decision-making process,” he explained. 

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