Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
leandrobon Sunday, February 22, 2026Is there any reliable way to determine whether an image is AI-generated (or AI-edited) versus a real photo that’s been compressed, resized, or edited? Detectors seem brittle and disagree, is there anything that’s dependable enough to automate, or the answer is that you can’t tell from pixels alone?
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