This content is from Katie Anderson's Evaluating News Resources guide.
AI Detection: AI detecting websites are not 100% reliable in identifying AI images, but may be useful for checking source and context.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows anyone to generate images and videos using the images of real people available online. These are called deep fakes, and they are being used, sometimes with malicious intent, to influence you. Here are a few tips for spotting deep fake images.
Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI by MIT Media lab.
These eight questions are intended to help guide people looking through DeepFakes. High-quality DeepFakes are not easy to discern, but with practice, people can build intuition for identifying what is fake and what is real. You can practice trying to detect DeepFakes at Detect Fakes.
Another article from the BBC says to look at fingers and ears, which are hard to duplicate correctly. Also check the background to see if it's blurry or inconsistent with the supposed location of someone in it.
Woman at a Window, The National Gallery, London
This image was discovered to have been a fake, painted over to be more appealing to buyers at the time. Like fake news, it covers up the facts in order to "sell" something, such as a viewpoint that may be targeted to a particular audience.
Here is a video from the National Gallery in London showing the conservation process which uncovered the original painting.
We used to tell students to evaluate sources by looking at things such as the domain of a website, for example .org vs .com, but this is no longer useful because .org can be used by sites that are created to share misinformation. Instead, you should open new tabs to search for information about the organization and people who created the website, as well as about any topics that it discusses. This is called "lateral reading", because you are searching alongside your source of information.