Content authenticity & AI detection
Guides, methods and analyses to detect AI-generated images, expose deepfakes and certify the authenticity of your content. By the TruthLens team.
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C2PA and Content Credentials: Content Provenance Explained
Backed by Adobe, Microsoft, OpenAI and camera makers: the standard that wants to give every media file an 'origin label'.
What Is a Deepfake and How Do You Detect One?
From GANs to diffusion models: understanding how a deepfake is born is the first step to learning how to expose it.
Content Authenticity in the Age of AI: Stakes and Solutions
When any visual can be fabricated in seconds, proving authenticity becomes the new value. A complete overview.
How to Detect an AI-Generated Image in 2026: The Complete Guide
Deformed hands, inconsistent reflections, missing metadata: the reference guide to identifying an AI-generated image.
Protecting Your Business Against Fraudulent AI Content
AI fraud isn't just a technical problem. The 7-part plan to harden your organization, from process to tools.
How to Verify a Photo Received by Message or Email
A 'proof' photo sent by a stranger? Before believing it, five simple checks that take two minutes.
Banking & KYC: Detecting Forged Documents and Selfies
Fully digital onboarding opens the door to AI document fraud. The controls that secure a KYC journey.
Real Estate: Spotting Manipulated or AI Listing Photos
The property in the photo isn't always the one you visit. Verifying real estate visuals, from AI staging to scams.
Visual Misinformation and Fake News: How to Verify
The most effective fake news is an image. A step-by-step visual fact-checking method to defeat it.
E-commerce: Authenticating Product Visuals and Reviews
One product page in four contains a suspicious visual. Authenticating images to preserve customer trust.
The EU AI Act and AI Content Transparency: What Changes
From August 2026, labeling AI content is no longer best practice but a legal duty. A breakdown of the AI Act.
Recruitment: Detecting Fake Profiles and AI-Generated Photos
The ideal candidate sometimes doesn't exist. Detecting fake profiles and AI-generated faces in recruitment.
Journalism: Verifying Image Authenticity Before Publishing
Publishing a fake image costs a newsroom its credibility. The verification protocol every journalist should know.
Certifying Image or Video Authenticity: Legal Value
An analysis is good; admissible proof is better. What turns a verdict into a legally useful document.
Deepfake Video Calls: The New Wire-Transfer Fraud
$26 million stolen through a fake video call: a breakdown of a fast-growing fraud and how to avoid it.
Insurance: Detecting Faked Claim Photos
One claim in ten relies on a manipulated photo. Image forensics is becoming insurers' anti-fraud weapon.
Validating Content Compliance: A Guide for Businesses
From moderation to legal, validating content is no longer optional. Here's an operational framework for organizations.
Deepfakes and Scams: How to Protect Yourself in 2026
CEO fraud now comes by video. An overview of deepfake scams and the concrete countermeasures.
Marketplace Fraud (Facebook, eBay, Vinted): Spot Fake Photos
The perfect listing often hides a photo that isn't. The checks to run before sending a single euro.
Reverse Image Search: The Complete 2026 Guide
Before any forensic analysis, one question: does this image already exist elsewhere? Reverse search answers it.
Cloned Voice and Audio Deepfakes: How to Detect Them
A few seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice. Here are the signals that betray a synthetic sample.
AI Images on Social Media: Verify Before You Share
One in three viral images is now suspicious. The verification reflex that keeps you from spreading a fake.
AI Watermarking (SynthID & co): Strengths and Limits
An invisible watermark in every pixel: promising, but fragile to cropping and screenshots. A status report.
How to Verify an Image for Free: Methods and Tools in 2026
No lab required: a complete tour of free methods to verify an image, from the simplest to the most technical.
How to Detect a Deepfake Video: Practical Guide 2026
Video is the most demanding terrain. Temporal analysis, frame consistency and physiological signals on the menu.
Typical AI Image Artifacts: Hands, Eyes, Textures, Reflections
AI reproduces the plausible, not the real. Here are the 12 recurring flaws that betray an artificial generation.
PRNU and Sensor Noise: Your Camera's Unique Signature
Every sensor leaves a unique noise, like a fingerprint. PRNU exploits this signature to authenticate a photo.
How to Detect a Stable Diffusion Image: Forensic Guide
Open-source model, therefore the hardest to trace: a focus on Stable Diffusion's artifacts and frequency-domain signals.
C2PA and Content Credentials: Content Provenance Explained
Backed by Adobe, Microsoft, OpenAI and camera makers: the standard that wants to give every media file an 'origin label'.
How to Detect a DALL·E and GPT-4o Image: Cues and Verification
OpenAI signs its images with C2PA Content Credentials — but that's not foolproof. Here's how to verify.
What Is a Deepfake and How Do You Detect One?
From GANs to diffusion models: understanding how a deepfake is born is the first step to learning how to expose it.
How to Recognize a Midjourney Image: Signs and Methods
Over-polished aesthetics, waxy skin textures, blurred backgrounds: how to spot the Midjourney signature.
Content Authenticity in the Age of AI: Stakes and Solutions
When any visual can be fabricated in seconds, proving authenticity becomes the new value. A complete overview.
EXIF Metadata: What It Reveals About an Image
An authentic photo tells its story in its EXIF. Learn to read it — and to understand what its absence means.
How to Detect an AI-Generated Image in 2026: The Complete Guide
Deformed hands, inconsistent reflections, missing metadata: the reference guide to identifying an AI-generated image.
Error Level Analysis (ELA) Explained Simply
ELA reveals the recompressed areas of a JPEG. Learn to read its colored maps without falling for false positives.
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