Round 1 of 10
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Is this photo real, or AI-generated?
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Ten photos. You pick: real, or made by AI. Every answer teaches you one tell — the extra fingers, the plastic skin, the impossible background. Takes about three minutes.
Start the quiz →The "AI slop" industry is a scam funnel. Stanford Internet Observatory found 120 Facebook pages posting fake images picked up hundreds of millions of engagements — many of them routing older users to phishing sites, fake stores, and romance scams. Learning to spot the tells is the single best defense.
You've got the basics.
AI still struggles with hands. Six fingers, four fingers, fingers merging into each other — the single most reliable tell.
Plastic-smooth, poreless, oddly symmetrical faces. Real skin has texture, blemishes, uneven lighting on the cheeks.
AI backgrounds warp. Airplane windows become oval blobs, wheels merge into the ground, patterns repeat weirdly. Zoom in on anything behind the subject.
"Beautiful cabin crew 🌹 Scarlett Johansson💋💋" or "Say Amen for 7 years of luck" — copy-paste captions that don't match the image are slop-farm fingerprints.
Recently created? Generic name like "History for Everyone"? Posts every 20 minutes? Original page name doesn't match current content? You're on a slop farm.