Real or Fake? The AI Deepfake Game
As Generative AI becomes more capable, it’s getting harder and harder to spot AI-generated images. Powerful image generation models like Google Gemini Nano Banana Pro (yes, really), Flux and Midjourney can create very believable images in many styles.
Can you tell real from fake in the ten pairs of images below?
Real or Fake?
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This short free course was created with a combination of ChatGPT, Copilot, and HeyGen’s AI avatars to demonstrate what is already possible with Generative AI and synthetic media. Join now at the Practical AI Strategies website:
This Course is AI Generated
This course is AI generated: the title says it all! I used a variety of AI tools to create this entire course on deepfakes and synthetic media to raise awareness about what is possible right now with these technologies. The course scripts were constructed using ChatGPT by providing our deepfake research agenda and my blog posts. Slides were generated with ChatGPT, and video and voiceovers with my HeyGen AI avatar. We need to talk about deepfakes.
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Last updated Jun 10th, 2025
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