Can You Spot the AI-Generated Image?
Real or AI? Test your eye for odd hands, warped text, strange reflections, and other subtle clues in synthetic images.
About this quiz
AI-generated images can look convincing at first glance, but small details often give them away. This quiz challenges you to inspect portraits, crowds, landmarks, dinner tables, glasses, books, and outdoor scenes for the kinds of clues synthetic images tend to leave behind.
After working through ten quick scenarios, you'll see how well you recognize common AI image tells, from distorted hands and unreadable text to inconsistent reflections and perspective. Treat your result as a fun visual literacy check for the AI age.
Possible results
🎨 AI Has Your Eye
SCORE RANGE: 0 – 49
The machines are winning this round. AI image generation has gotten remarkably sophisticated, and the tells are increasingly subtle. The good news: knowing where to look changes everything. Read the explanations and you’ll be much sharper next time.
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🔍 Getting Suspicious
SCORE RANGE: 50 – 69
You have a developing eye for AI artifacts. You know some of the classics — hands, text, skin texture — but the more subtle tells (shadows, reflections, perspective) may have slipped past. You’re better equipped than most people to notice when something looks wrong.
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🧠 Sharp AI Skeptic
SCORE RANGE: 70 – 89
You have solid knowledge of how AI image generation works and where it fails. You look in the right places: reflections, shadows, text, hands. You’re much harder to fool than the average person, and you understand why images look off rather than just feeling it.
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🚀 AI Detection Expert
SCORE RANGE: 90 – 100
You know how AI image generation works at a technical level and can reliably identify its artifacts. Shadows, reflections, text rendering, perspective coherence, uncanny valley in crowds — you see it all. In a world of synthetic media, this is a genuinely valuable skill.
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Quiz questions
Which feature is the MOST common giveaway in AI-generated portraits?
You see a photo of a crowd at a stadium. Everyone looks subtly "off" but you can't identify a single thing wrong. What's the likely explanation?
An image shows a library with books. The spines have text, but none of it is readable. This is:
You see two portraits. One has perfectly even skin, flawless symmetry, and no visible pores. The other has slight blemishes and asymmetry. Which is more likely AI?
An AI image shows a person wearing glasses. What should you look at first?
You see a photo of a table set for dinner. The napkins are folded and the cutlery is placed, but something feels wrong about the setting. What’s the most likely AI tell?
An AI image of an outdoor scene has a beautiful sky but the horizon line looks slightly wrong. Why does this happen?
You see a photo of a person in front of the Eiffel Tower. The tower looks a bit wrong but you can’t say exactly how. What’s the most likely reason?
You're looking at a highly realistic AI portrait. Which is the LEAST reliable method for detecting it?
Which of these is currently the BEST tool for detecting AI-generated images?
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