Machine-made media, and what actually survives as evidence.
The tells that still work, the ones that stopped working, and why the tools that claim to detect this are worse than useless.
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Stop counting fingers
The advice everyone repeats about spotting generated images is two model generations out of date, and it now produces false accusations against real photographs.
6 min
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Video: what survives, and what stopped mattering
Blink rate was a real tell in 2018 and has not been one for years. What still works is consistency across time, and the reason clips are short.
6 min
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Why AI detectors fail, and who pays for it
Tools that promise to tell you whether a text or an image was machine-made are unreliable in a specific, predictable direction — and the people they wrongly accuse are rarely the ones who can argue back.
7 min
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Provenance beats detection
Asking whether an image looks fake is a losing race. Asking where it came from is a question with an answer — and there is now a signed, checkable way to record it.
7 min
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The voice on the phone is your daughter. Probably not.
A few seconds of audio is enough to clone someone. The defence is not technical and it costs nothing: agree a password with your family tonight.
5 min