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How To Find if an Image Is AI-Generated or Not

February 16, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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As the tech gets better, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect whether the image you’re looking at is real or generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Scroll down to find out the tools that can help you detect this.

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🔖 In this edition, let’s look at one of the tools that can detect if the image has been generated using AI: Hive AI detector.

How to install?

You can add it as an extension to your Google Chrome browsers by clicking here. And it’s for free!

What does it do?

It detects whether an image or text is AI-generated or not.

How does it work?

Once you’ve added it as an extension to your Chrome browser, click on the tool in the extension bar and deselect the ‘Show icon on page’ option.

Next, right click on the image that you want to verify and click on: Hive AI detector.

A Hive pop-up will appear which will run a scan on the image and detect whether it’s AI-generated or not.

Kites to Colgate: How Farmers Are Protecting Themselves At The Protest

🔖 From pellet guns on Khanauri border to tear gas from drones at the Shambhu border, the second day of the farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest saw police use extreme measures to block farmers from entering the city.

In one video with over 46,000 likes by a ‘Pekhamtractormehkana’ farmers were seen resorting to flying kites in an attempt to entangle police’s flying drones and bring them down. Read Titha Ghosh’s report.

How Phone Network Separates Two Neighbouring Villages In Kashmir

🔖 Finding a lifeline under the shade of a centuries-old Chinar tree that falls in between two villages in Kashmir, the young residents of the village have resorted to sitting in the wild to stay connected to the outer world. Find out more in Mohsina Malik & Ashish Kumar Kataria’s story.

'Delhi Chalo' Protest Kicks Off: What Are The Farmers' Demands?

🔖 The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha began their 'Delhi Chalo' rally this week in order to urge the Central government to meet their demands. These demands, among others, include the implementation of a law ensuring a minimum support price (MSP) for crops. Hera Rizwan explains farmers’ demands.

Electoral Bonds Unconstitutional, SBI To Make Details Public By March 6: SC

🔖 In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution Bench unanimously struck down the Electoral Bonds scheme calling it unconstitutional.

This verdict is crucial ahead of the upcoming general elections tentatively slated for April-May since it changes the way political parties can now accept donations for poll campaigns. Read the highlights of the judgment in Ritika Jain’s report.

🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

🔍 An unrelated video of a modified tractor went viral with a false claim that it shows a tractor that farmers currently en route Delhi for a protest, are using to breach police barricades. So then, where is the video from? Find out in 🔗Sujith & Anmol Alphonso↗️’s fact-check.

🔍 An AI-generated photo purporting to show modified tractors on a highway was circulated falsely linking it to the ongoing 'Delhi Chalo' farmers' protest claiming that these tractors would be used to breach police barricades to enter Delhi. 🔗Anmol Alphonso↗️ debunked the claim.

🔍 Several social media users falsely claimed that the Muslim population of Uttarakhand’s Haldwani grew from 1,000 to 1 lakh in the last two decades, and that its share among the population of the city grew from 1% to 20% in the past 23 years. Find out the truth in 🔗Nidhi Jacob↗️’s fact-check.

🅱️ Recommends

📖 This week's recommendation is: Methodologies for tracking and reporting AI by Hilke Schellmann, an Emmy-award winning reporter.

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