Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

How I Taught AI to Catch Fakes I Can't See

From side project to newsroom tool in twelve months

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Henk van Ess
Mar 12, 2026
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Imagewhisperer.org, my pet project to detect fake images, is one year old. In January, I wrote about why AI detection fails on the fakes that matter most. Denis Teyssou broke the tool with a Trudeau image. Ronan Le Nagard broke it with an Eiffel Tower composite.

I tried to fix both problem by adding a series of AI detectives to catch what the math missed…

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