"AI-generated images are everywhere now. I see them in my news feeds, in Google Images, in Pinterest pins, and even in some ads. It's gotten so pervasive that people have coined the term " AI slop." Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this flood of AI-generated content on your favorite platforms is not going to stop, and it's only going to get harder to tell what's real."
"This is the oldest giveaway. When AI image generators first became popular, they were notoriously bad at rendering text. And it's still one of the easiest ways to spot a fake. If you see an image of a poster, book cover, T-shirt, or anything that feels a little off, my first tip is to zoom in on the text. If the letters look warped, garbled, or are pure gibberish, you're almost certainly looking at AI."
AI-generated images now appear across news feeds, search results, social platforms, and advertisements, making visual verification more difficult. Generative models continue to improve quickly; Google released Gemini 3 with the Nano Banana Pro image generator, which can produce near-photorealistic results and preserve likeness. Powerful editing and iterative capabilities make outputs look polished, yet subtle artifacts remain. Common signs of fakes include garbled or warped text, unnatural faces and hands, and inconsistent textures. Six practical detection cues can help distinguish fakes, and free tools such as Circle to Search provide accessible assistance for image verification.
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