Don't Let AI Fool You

🗓️ April 1, 2026

✍🏾 Gabby Ervin 

Happy April Fool’s Day Howard! In light of the holiday, we are going to play a game called: Be Fooled or Beat the Bot. 

Below are a series of photos, some AI and some real. As you go through and look at each photo try to guess, without looking, if the photo is AI or real. 

How’d you do? If some images fooled you, that’s ok! AI is developing at an unprecedented rate, which makes it important to always be critical of the images you see online. Some easy ways to spot AI are:

1. Check the hands: most AI images of humans have hands that don’t look quite right

2. Read the words: most words written in AI are gibberish and don’t make any sense

3. Look at the backgrounds: look closer at the image and you may find that the background has details that don’t blend with the original image

4. Look at faces: oftentimes AI images have faces that look almost uncanny

Using these tips and staying vigilant, may help you stay safe from being scammed or misled by AI.