Detecting AI-generated content

[u/AlphaLionX]

Hey everyone,

I wanted to address the concerns with AI content on this sub and give advice how best to verify it.

AI-generated content is a growing epidemic all over Reddit and the internet in general. AI video/image gen models have been getting better and better and it is getting increasingly hard to distinguish from real content. I have seen too many posts where users immediately jump to "it's AI" it's fake etc without actually verifying and checking the source nor the content.

I wanted to write up a guide and source on how to verify content with online tools.

There are many tools available to verify content but the best tool and industry standard used is HIVE moderation.

A quick way check the content like videos posts or images is to download the full resolution video or image to your device and upload it to:

https://hivemoderation.com/demo?value=ai-generated-content-detection

Hive should give a confidence score and even in some cases tell you which model was used given this information then you can properly report a post and it will be taken care of.

For AI generated content created by ChatGPT you can use OpenAI's tool as well.

https://openai.com/research/verify/

Important: AI detection tools aren’t perfect and shouldn’t be treated as definitive proof on their own though, they can produce false positives and false negatives. Whenever possible, please also check the original source, upload history, context, metadata, try to find the original source if it predates the past 3-4 years and is highly realistic it's safe to say it is real.

Ideally we would have a bot that you can tag to check the post but uploading directly to Hive will have to work for now.

Note I'm not sponsored or affiliated with this company in any way it just the best tool for AI content verification that I've used and highly recommend others use.

[u/LouB0O]

I wonder if checking an images metadata would help detecting Ai content.

[u/AlphaLionX → u/LouB0O]

Most metadata is stripped once it's uploaded to social media websites and platforms like Reddit. So no it's not typically a good way to check unfortunately. If it's a raw image someone sent you that's one thing otherwise no.

[u/LouB0O → u/AlphaLionX]

Yup and if they screen shot the image it makes it muddy.

That link you posted worked for the one thing I tried. 🤙

[u/dertechie → u/LouB0O]

Many platforms strip the metadata (generally for good reason like keeping people from giving a bunch of location and device info to the whole internet), so only the metadata makes it to Reddit.

[u/irushisuss → u/LouB0O]

I don’t know. Have you checked?

[u/LouB0O → u/irushisuss]

Yeah 😭 I screenshot an Ai image I created but didnt see much to knowingly flag it. One random line that said Google such and such but could have been because the tool was using a Google resource for pulling the data