A deepfake detector checks whether an image was photographed with a real camera or generated by an AI tool. Faux Spy puts one in your right-click menu — any photo, any website, no uploading required.
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Deepfake fraud is no longer a niche problem. Sumsub's 2024 identity fraud report found deepfake incidents grew 257% in a single year — and most of that growth wasn't celebrity face-swaps. It was profile photos on dating apps, recruiter accounts on LinkedIn, reviewer headshots on product listings. The face looks convincing because the generation tools have gotten good enough to produce something indistinguishable from a real photograph.
The photos aren't always taken by a camera anymore. Some were assembled from scratch by a model that never looked at a real person. And nothing about them signals this to the eye.
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AI Photo — this is the deepfake category. The model detected a photorealistic AI-generated image: a synthetic face that doesn't belong to any real person. Above 80% confidence, take it seriously.
Real Photo — the image has the characteristics of an authentic photograph. A 95% "Real Photo" verdict is strong. A 55% one is worth noting but not conclusive.
Inconclusive — not enough signal. Usually means the image is too small or compressed. Find the full-size version and try again.
Dating apps and social media — fake profile photos are the most common use case. Generated faces tend to have a specific quality: everything in proportion, skin unusually clean, lighting flattering in a way candid photos rarely are. Real faces have more randomness. Your brain notices something without being able to name it.
LinkedIn and professional networks — fake recruiter profiles, phantom candidates, and scam outreach accounts often use generated headshots because they look more professional than stolen real photos. A polished headshot is less suspicious than a photo grabbed from someone's Instagram.
News and disinformation — generated images attached to real events: "witnesses" at an incident, protest crowds, public figures in places they never were. The image makes something look photographed that no camera ever captured.
Product reviews and testimonials — review fraud increasingly uses AI-generated reviewer photos. A cluster of reviewer headshots with the same studio-quality lighting, no glasses, no specific background, nothing personal — no real customer photographs like that.
Not yet for the standard extension — but Pro + Video (launching soon) analyzes AI-generated video and identifies the generator: Sora, Runway, Pika, Veo, and more. The current extension focuses on AI-generated photos: the kind that show up in fake profiles, news articles, and social media posts.
For photorealistic AI-generated faces — the main type used in profile photo deepfakes — accuracy runs 90–95%. Faux Spy shows you the confidence percentage so you can weigh the result. A 91% "AI Photo" verdict is very different from a 58% one.
Yes — if the image was generated by AI, Faux Spy can usually detect it regardless of whose face it shows. A synthetic image of a real person still has the pixel-level patterns that AI generation leaves behind.
Inconclusive usually means the image is too small or heavily compressed — common with profile thumbnails. Try finding the full-size version of the image. A full-resolution photo will give the model more signal to work with.
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