Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Made by Google. Missed by Google — except for one tool, buried in the garden shed.

If Google can make the fake, it should flag the fake in all its products

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Henk van Ess
Feb 08, 2026
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Take a picture generated by Google’s own AI. Feed it to four other Google AI tools. Three of them won’t tell you it’s fake. The fourth — a tool most people don’t even know exists — will. The answers, in order: ‘That’s Epstein.’ ‘Hmm, maybe.’ ‘That’s a former Israeli prime minister.’ And finally: ‘That’s an AI fake.’”

One company. Five tools. One creates …

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