I can't tell if this photo is real or AI and that terrifies me

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I recently came across this post: https://x.com/immasiddx/status/1992979078220263720

Two photos both generated using Nano Banana or Nano Banana Pro. One of them (left) kind of looks synthetic. The other one (right)? I’d swear it’s a real photo.

It’s scary how good these are getting. Honestly, I don’t want to believe the right one is AI-generated.

But it raises an important question:

How do we detect images like this? What tools, techniques, or even open-source projects can help?

I have no solution this time. But I’m convinced we need open-source AI detectors now more than ever.

If anyone knows any projects, research, or even homegrown heuristics — please share.

This is quickly becoming everyone’s problem.

there is clearly an interest in creating AI indistinguishable from humans, i dont think this is a good direction, and effort could be directed at important problems, such as AI that works properly in the first place.

the onus appears to be on humans to watermark as not AI

I absolutely agree

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