Free AI image quiz

AI or Not? The Daily Viral Image Quiz

The Pope in a puffer jacket. A surfer floating in midair. One of them is fake. Can you tell which viral images were made with AI?

Daily puzzle

Did the internet fool you?

Five viral images. Some are AI fakes that fooled millions of people, and some are real photos that everyone swore were fake. Make your call, then get the story behind each one.

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How to play the AI-or-Not game

Look at each image before choosing Real or AI. After every guess, the quiz reveals the answer, the story of how the image spread, what gives it away, how AI Detector scored it, and how many other players got it right. There are five images a day, and a new set unlocks at midnight in your time zone. Share your result as a grid of green and red squares and see if your friends do better.

What should you look for in an AI image?

Start with relationships rather than one famous giveaway. Check whether fingers actually grip an object, reflections match the scene, small controls form a usable object, text stays readable, and repeated textures make physical sense. New image models often render each of these well, so an image with no obvious mistake may still be generated.

The opposite mistake matters too. Compression, blur, unusual lighting, and aggressive phone processing can make a real photograph look AI-generated. Our guide to seven image checks that still help explains how to combine visual inspection with stronger evidence.

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What is the AI-or-Not image quiz?

It is a free daily guessing game. Each day you get five viral images: AI fakes that fooled millions of people and real photos that people swore were fake. Guess Real or AI, then read the story behind each image.

How is my quiz score calculated?

Each correct guess earns one point, so your score is out of five. At the end you can compare it with how AI Detector scored the same images and share your result as a grid of colored squares.

Where did the quiz images come from?

They are well-known viral images, reproduced for commentary and media literacy education. Every reveal credits the creator or photographer and links to a source for the story. If you own one of these images and want it removed, contact us.

Does the quiz store my answers?

Your progress stays in your browser. We also keep an anonymous count of right and wrong answers per image to show how other players did. To stop double counting we store a truncated one-way hash of your IP address for 30 days, never the address itself.

Image credits and sources (spoilers)

These images are reproduced for commentary and media literacy education. If you own one and want it removed, email hello@aicheck.app and we will take it down.

  • The Balenciaga Pope: Midjourney image by Pablo Xavier (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source
  • The floating surfer: Photo by Jérôme Brouillet / AFP. Source
  • The Hurricane Helene girl: AI-generated, creator unknown. Source
  • The pink sky of May 2024: Photo by W.carter, Tuntorp, Sweden (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source
  • The crowd called AI: Photo from the Harris-Walz rally at Detroit Metro Airport, August 7, 2024. Source
  • The fake Pentagon explosion: AI-generated, creator unknown. Source
  • The flamingo that won an AI contest: Photo by Miles Astray, "F L A M I N G O N E". Source
  • Katy Perry at the 2024 Met Gala: AI-generated, shared by fan accounts. Source
  • The blue fire volcano: Photo by Thomas Fuhrmann (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source
  • Protect the ducks and kittens: AI-generated, shared by the House Judiciary GOP (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source
  • The arrest that never happened: Midjourney image by Eliot Higgins (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source
  • Moo Deng: MGR Online video still (CC BY 3.0). Source
  • The Hollywood sign on fire: AI-generated, creator unknown (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source
  • The real Palisades Fire: Photo by Ariam23 (CC BY 4.0). Source
  • The fire rainbow: Photo by LanceNickel (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source
  • The prize-winning fake: Boris Eldagsen, made with AI image generators (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source
  • The bubblegum lake: Photo by Yodaobione (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source
  • Shrimp Jesus: AI-generated Facebook post, creator unknown (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source
  • The blue dragon: Photo by Taro Taylor (CC BY 2.0). Source
  • The hurricane rescue that never happened: AI-generated, creator unknown (Public domain (AI-generated)). Source