After testing the best apps available today, heres how they each performed with AI-generated and human images.
One is of a cat watching a butterfly.
The other mimics a painting of a sailboat surrounded by birds.
The screenshots below display the initial results.
Their analysis and probability scores are based on their algorithms alone.
Youll find them listed from most to least accurate in detecting AI images.
How Accurate Was Hive Moderation?
Hive Moderationwas the most effective AI image detector of the lot.
The cat and butterfly image scored 99.9 percent.
The sailboat was also marked as AI-generated with 98.3 percent certainty.
When given any image made by a human, Hive Moderation never gave a false positive.
It can clearly tell the difference between real and artificial creations.
How Accurate Was Hugging Face’s SDXL Detector?
It scores uploaded files based on their likelihood of being AI versus human.
The cat and butterfly image got 0.844 for artificial and 0.156 for human.
The detector accurately identified it as AI-generated but with some uncertainty.
The fake painting of a sailboat was correctly caught by Hugging Faces algorithm.
The artificial score was 0.981 and the human 0.019.
The detector matched Hive Moderations probability calculation.
It was also right about the photograph of the elephant figurines.
SDXL Detector marked it as human by a score of 1, leaving no chance of it being artificial.
How Accurate Was Illuminarty?
Illuminartycorrectly spotted the AI images but thought the real photo was artificial, too.
Lets break down the results.
The cat and butterfly got the highest probability score: 89.3 percent.
The detector is programmed toidentify AI-generated imagesthrough their flaws, and it did quite well with this picture.
It was less confident, however, when it came to the AI artwork of a sailboat.
The strokes and textures are convincing enough to give the detector pause but not fool it completely.
It got a probability score of 78.5 percent.
But then Illuminarty was 77.7 percent sure that the photograph of the elephants was AI-generated.
This goes to show that even the best AI image detectors arent perfect.
They can make mistakes depending on a picture’s subject and characteristics.
How Accurate Was AI or Not?
AI or Notoffers much simpler results.
There are no probability percentages, just the likelihood of an image being AI or human.
When tested with the AI images, it correctly classified the cat and butterfly as artificial.
The sailboat, however, tricked the detector and passed as human-generated.
Pick at least two that you trust, and dont fall for a fake picture again.
