Check face images and portraits for AI clues.

Deepfake image clues worth checking

Not every AI face image is a deepfake, and not every deepfake is fully synthetic. Some images mix real photos with generated faces, face swaps, upscaling, retouching, or compression. That is why a useful review looks at the whole image instead of only the face.

• Eyes may point in slightly different directions or have impossible catchlights.
• Teeth, earrings, glasses, hair strands, and collar edges often show repeated or fused detail.
• Skin can look too smooth while pores, facial hair, and wrinkles appear unevenly distributed.
• Background people, hands, badges, and logos can break even when the main face looks realistic.

Why profile pictures are hard

Profile photos are often cropped, resized, filtered, and compressed by social platforms. Those steps can remove camera metadata and hide artifacts. Img ID still helps by looking for visual evidence and by extracting any text or metadata that remains. A low-resolution image may return a cautious result because there is less signal to inspect.

Useful workflow

Save the highest-resolution version available, upload it to Img ID, read the evidence list, then compare it with account behavior. Newly created accounts, stolen bios, stock-like portraits, and requests for money or private contact are stronger red flags when combined with a suspicious scan.

Use the result carefully

A detector should not be used to publicly accuse a person by itself. Use it as a screening tool. If a face image matters, preserve the original file, document where it came from, compare multiple sources, and avoid relying on one compressed screenshot. Img ID is most useful when it helps you decide whether a photo needs deeper verification.