What are the best ways to figure out if someone who contacted you / a piece of text / an image is AI generated?
[Question] Tools to discern between real and AI
Technical answers are likely to be obsolete in a few months when the next versions of AIs are published.
In the meanwhile, if a person you know calls you, ask them about some experience you had together that wasn’t documented in writing.
A piece of text… maybe Ctrl+F “as a large language model”? :D
An image… count how many fingers on each hand, and how many hands on each person.
Almost nothing is real. Even non-ai text or images are often false or misleading. Almost everything is real, in that a human decided to cause it to happen.
There aren’t good ways to do this automatically for text, and state of the art is rapidly evolving.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05750v1
For photographic images which contain detailed images humans or contain non-standard objects with details, there are still some reasonably good heuristics for when AIs will mess up those details, but I’m not sure how long they will be valid for.