r/RealOrAI • • May 06 '26

Discussion Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back.

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Article from Science Magazine. Might be against the rules but I thought it belonged here! https://scim.ag/42dMPBg


r/RealOrAI • • Feb 15 '26

Discussion General Discussion Thread

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Hello all!

This is general thread for rants, feedback or anything else that doesn't generally fit in the sub. Feel free to speak your mind!

The main point on which we'd like to get community feedback on is [TAGS]. This has been working for a while but we are noticing some friction on the use of [GUESS] and [HELP] tags.

We are thinking on replacing them with flairs and ditching the flair categories (which I believe serve no useful purpose at the moment). What do you think?

The Mods


r/RealOrAI • • 23h ago

HELP Are we genuinely cooked?

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Is this well edited or is he being serious about it being AI?


r/RealOrAI • • 1d ago

HELP Sleepy Science Channel on YouTube

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The channel photo and the animations in recent videos are clearly AI, but I mean the bulk of the videos themselves. There's a video on the homepage of the channel from the guy who created the channel, saying he got "some help" with the editing and the voice overs. Is that "some help" AI? The upload frequency and length of the videos is suspicious.

Enjoyable channel, but I don't want to support AI channels. What do you guys think?


r/RealOrAI • • 1d ago

HELP ”Future prediction from 1999”

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This is fram a an account called beatsnblends. The other videos on that account doesn’t seem to be AI. What do you guys think? Obviously it is fiction and not from 1999. But is it a skit or is it AI?


r/RealOrAI • • 2d ago

HELP Sus dragon mascot

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r/RealOrAI • • 2d ago

HELP Is this fish girl GIF real or no?

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I've encountered this GIF not too long ago and I think it's really funny but the way the fish flops around and her blank expression look kinda odd? I tried reverse searching it but I couldn't find when it was originally posted :(


r/RealOrAI • • 3d ago

HELP "Cat and small bird", supposedly by Tōshi Yoshida

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i saw this on tumblr. i believe it may be ai: i could not find this when googling the artist. when i googled the artist and title, i found two facebook posts, both made this year, and both with different dates for when the piece was supposedly made. i also think it looks kind of strange and different compared to the artists other works. would love to hear opinions on this


r/RealOrAI • • 3d ago

HELP Lioness Comes to Face-to-Face with Tourist on Safari

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Id appreciate help in explaining to the audience in this post that it is AI. I’m fairly confident it’s AI because:
1. The way his legs are crossed don’t make sense; his right leg is like disappearing in the vehicles wall, and his left leg is touching the floor which would be very difficult in the small space. &
2. His left leg is wearing what looks to be a right footed shoe.
Any other tips are much appreciated!


r/RealOrAI • • 2d ago

HELP Real on not? Makes no sense

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r/RealOrAI • • 2d ago

HELP Is this real? Black car on the left lane suddenly gone.

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r/RealOrAI • • 2d ago

HELP Is this AI?

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i think this may be AI because I have seen same video with different girl. Or maybe its original. how do people make this; is it a template ?


r/RealOrAI • • 3d ago

HELP Mystery: "Stone Rebel" band —real or not?

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Listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SADClBAku6E

This "band" has been making music since 2018, and even releasing music in 2021 and 2022, before the capabilities of so much AI music today, but the incredible, inhuman output of the "band"—whom no one can find any details about—is extremely suspicious.

It has so many awfully decisive marks of AI music, but others are apparently just as decisive that it's not, like making music before AI programs were capable.

***They put out four (4) albums in 2018, and six (6!) full albums every year in 2019, 2021, and 2022! Many more since then.***

This has been a mystery for over 6 years, apparently:

https://www.apocalypselatermusic.com/2020/06/stone-rebel-hole-in-sun-2020.html?m=1

Info on the "band" (even from 2018 and 2019) is also impossible to find.

Post from six years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/comments/jd6r6a/stone_rebel_the_last_mile_of_destiny_stoner/
Post from 8 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Euterpe/comments/9xplfl/stone_rebel_magic_ball_full_album_2018/

Fans also can't come to any consensus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/stonerrock/comments/1jfrpe3/are_these_real_bands_octopus_diver_stone_rebel/

Are these just a bunch of insanely reclusive and prolific musicians?

Help settle this.


r/RealOrAI • • 3d ago

HELP Is this ai. It’s hard to tell

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r/RealOrAI • • 4d ago

HELP I can’t find this video anywhere else on the internet of Michigan political candidate John James, is this real?

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r/RealOrAI • • 5d ago

HELP If you do a screenshot of an AI picture, does it preserve the AI information?

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If you have an AI adjusted picture, but then you open it with, say, irfanview and then make a zoon selection of part of it and then save that, does it preserve the AI information? Like if that is sent to you, can you say wait a minute that was AI adjusted?

Like in this picture, the sky was adjusted to overcast. Then it was screen shot and copied. How can you tell it was AI adjusted? I'm concerned about this for personal photos, so there's no way I can search on the internet.


r/RealOrAI • • 4d ago

HELP Today's google doodle

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I want to believe it's not. Last year they did a doodle with the National museum of the American Latino and Sergio George, and it was gorgeous. This year they don't mention working with anyone, it's just kind of "latin pop" theme. And it looks like this. Very vague and bland, the cubes are completely uneven on every single letter, the base of the trumpet l doesn't line up with the e OR the g. The two drums are different shapes.

For contrast, here is the one from last year: https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-salsa-hispanic-heritage-month/

Also when you look up the list of Hispanic heritage doodles, the one from 2025 doesn't show up. I don't know why, maybe it was an accident.


r/RealOrAI • • 4d ago

HELP IS THIS AI?😭I GOT IT INA AMAZON RETURN PALATE TJINF HELP? Look cloe he’s sus fr

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Like his middle of his shirt is really sus to me


r/RealOrAI • • 5d ago

HELP Is this bear wallpaper ai?

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I've been using it for a while now but the more I stare at it the more I think it's ai. Idk the line may not make sense the backpack orientation is off(?) the shadows in it's back doesn't go to the tail ? I hope I'm wrong tho but I can't figure it out :/


r/RealOrAI • • 4d ago

HELP Could this amusing video be real or ai?

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I'm having a genuine hard time deciding whether this is cleverly real or ai


r/RealOrAI • • 6d ago

HELP Is this local artist using AI?

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There is a local artist to my area being called out for AI art. I really believe I see it, and yet she is insisting she is not using it and says there are time lapses of her work--but time lapses can be faked nowadays too. So, what say you internet? I'm feeling pretty gaslit seeing AI but being told by a person I could see in person with real 3D art hanging on shelves that they are drawing all this by hand.


r/RealOrAI • • 6d ago

HELP AI Wall Print?

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This wall used to have artwork that was hand painted by people who previously worked on our ship. We had to paint over it. After that, my boss hired contractors to print these images over where the artwork used to be.

The nonsensical design and piss filter tell me it might be AI, but not all of my coworkers agree.


r/RealOrAI • • 6d ago

HELP Artist claims to draw his art without tracing AI. Many noticeable AI mistakes in the picture but still denies it.

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r/RealOrAI • • 7d ago

HELP comments swear it isn't ai, all his videos have a similar style

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I've seen a bunch of videos of this guy doing videos like this, all of them have an uneasy feeling, like the oil doing a stain too fast and stuff like that. Please tell me I'm not being paranoid. The video is from yoooryan_ on tiktok


r/RealOrAI • • 5d ago

HELP is this real or ai?

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