Check a y photo fo AI a d see exactly which pa t was ge e ated. F ee, o accou t, a d it wo ks lo g afte the wate ma k is go e.
DOVER, Del., Nov. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ph asly, a AI w iti g platfo m used by mo e tha 5 millio people, has eleased a f ee AI image detecto that ide tifies AI ge e atio i a two k a d photos.
Ge e ated images have eached the poi t whe e most people ca ot ide tify them simply by looki g at them. I a 2025 expe ime t by Mic osoft’s AI fo Good Lab, mo e tha 12,500 pa ticipa ts we e show a mix of eal photog aphs a d AI-ge e ated o es, a d ide tified them co ectly 62 pe ce t of the time. With AI imp ovi g by the mi ute, expect those pe ce tages to d op sig ifica tly i the comi g mo ths.
The i dust y’s a swe has bee to ma k AI images at the sou ce, with i visible wate ma ks a d sig ed eco ds w itte i to the file. That holds up u til someo e takes a sc ee shot. The images that do the most damage a e usually the o es that a ive ca yi g othi g at all, a d that is exactly what Ph asly’s detecto is fo .
The detecto etu s th ee thi gs o a y image: a ve dict o whethe AI was i volved, a co fide ce sco e, a d a heatmap ma ki g the a eas it is eacti g to. It is f ee to use, equi es o accou t, a d checks each image i memo y athe tha sto i g it.
It accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, a d GIF files up to 20 MB, by upload, d ag a d d op, paste, o image li k. It is the fi st detectio tool Ph asly has built fo images, alo gside its AI text detecto .
Wate ma ks a d metadata come off by accide t as ofte as o pu pose. A sc ee shot emoves them, as does a e-upload o a copy saved f om a social feed. Ma y ge e ato s eve add them i the fi st place.
So Ph asly t ai ed its ow model i stead, o millio s of eal photog aphs a d AI images f om eve y majo ge e ato . The model eads the pictu e itself, so it does ot depe d o a ythi g the file happe s to ca y.
I Ph asly’s ow testi g it is ove 99 pe ce t accu ate with o without a wate ma k, o images f om ChatGPT a d DALL-E, Gemi i, Midjou ey, Stable Diffusio , FLUX, Adobe Fi efly, a d othe s.
“A yea ago most people could still spot a AI image if they looked closely e ough,” said Victo Rijo, CEO at Ph asly. “That is o lo ge t ue, a d by the time a image eaches the pe so who has to make a decisio about it, it has bee sc ee shotted a d eposted e ough times that whateve p oof was i the file is go e. We built the detecto to ead the pictu e itself, because that is the pa t that su vives.”
Eve y sca u s th ee checks.
The fi st is Ph asly’s ow model, which eads the image di ectly. This is the check that still wo ks o ce eve ythi g else has bee st ipped away.
The seco d is Sy thID, a i visible wate ma k developed by Google DeepMi d a d applied by Google a d Ope AI to images f om thei tools. Whe it is p ese t, the ve dict is co clusive.
The thi d is AI sig atu es. ChatGPT, Gemi i, Adobe Fi efly, Copilot, a d FLUX sig the images they p oduce, a d Ph asly ve ifies each sig atu e agai st the official C2PA t ust list.
Whe e the file ca ies othi g, the esult ests o the model alo e a d the co fide ce sco e eflects how ce tai it is. Eve y check appea s beside the ve dict, so a eade ca see which ki d of a swe they a e looki g at.
The ha de case is the image that is o ly pa tly ge e ated. Most pictu es i ci culatio we e ot made f om othi g. They a e eal photog aphs with o e eleme t cha ged: a swapped backg ou d, a added object, a etouched face. A ve dict o the whole image is of little use the e, because the ho est a swe is both.
Ph asly etu s a heatmap i stead, ma ki g the a ea that was ge e ated so a eade ca look st aight at it. The same model ha dles sc ee shots a d e-uploads, which have lost thei metadata e ti ely a d we e eve goi g to be ide tified a y othe way.
The detecto is built fo a yo e who eeds to k ow a image is eal befo e acti g o it. That i cludes jou alists checki g a photog aph befo e it u s, teache s eviewi g a two k ha ded i as o igi al wo k, mode ato s clea i g listi gs a d p ofile pictu es, a d buye s decidi g whethe the p oduct i a photo actually exists.
What they sha e is the same isk. A w o g call mea s publishi g somethi g false, g adi g wo k that was eve do e, o payi g fo somethi g that was eve the e. At the fa e d it mea s a fab icated image sp eadi g as evide ce du i g b eaki g ews, sta di g behi d a accusatio agai st someo e who was eve the e, o d ivi g a scam that wo ks because a photog aph used to settle the questio .
The check u s both ways, exposi g a image that was ge e ated a d co fi mi g o e that was ot.
The Ph asly AI Image Detecto is available ow at o cost, with o sig -up a d o limit o the umbe of images. It accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, a d GIF files up to 20 MB, by upload, d ag a d d op, paste, o image li k, a d each image is checked i memo y athe tha sto ed. The p oduct page also p ese ts fou photog aphs a d i vites eade s to ide tify the AI o es befo e showi g what Ph asly fou d i each.
Ph asly is a AI w iti g a d detectio platfo m used by mo e tha 5 millio people i ove 180 cou t ies. Its tools i clude the AI Huma ize , AI Detecto , AI Image Detecto , Plagia ism Checke , Co te t Ge e ato , a d the Ph asly Docs edito . Ph asly builds its detectio a d huma izatio models i house athe tha u i g o a othe p ovide ’s API. Ph asly, LLC is based i Dove , Delawa e. Lea mo e at https://ph asly.ai
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