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AI Image or Real Photo Quiz
AI-generated or real photo? 50 trivia questions on the 2024 image-authentication crisis.
AI-generated or real photo? 50 trivia questions on the 2024 image-authentication crisis.
The Pope in a white puffy Balenciaga jacket — viral in March 2023 — was Midjourney AI, fooling millions and marking the moment many realized AI images had become photorealistic. Since then, tools like Midjourney v6, DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, and Flux have made detection nearly impossible by visual inspection alone. This quiz covers the tools, the tells, the lawsuits, and the famous fakes.
Each round presents 10 randomized questions from a pool of 50, with four multiple-choice options and instant feedback after every answer. Your final score comes with a performance tier and shareable results.
You'll explore the major AI image generators (Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Flux, Imagen, Firefly), the visual "tells" that used to give AI away (and why they no longer work), the most viral AI fakes of 2023-2024, content provenance standards like C2PA, watermarking systems like Google SynthID, and the lawsuits reshaping AI training.
Classic tells included extra fingers, garbled text, asymmetric reflections, and melting backgrounds — but newer models like Midjourney v6 and Flux have largely fixed these. Modern detection requires C2PA metadata, reverse image search, or specialized detectors like Hive Moderation.
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) is an Adobe-led open standard that embeds cryptographically signed metadata into images, indicating whether AI was used and tracking edit history. It is the basis of Adobe's Content Credentials initiative.
No. The image was generated in Midjourney by a construction worker named Pablo Xavier in March 2023. It went viral on Reddit and Twitter and is widely cited as the first major mainstream AI image fake.
Last updated: May 2026