AI headshot detector
AI headshot services have become common, and the output sits in an awkward middle ground: many start from real photographs of a real person and regenerate them, so the result is neither wholly synthetic nor a straightforward photograph.
That ambiguity is worth stating plainly, because it is where confident-sounding detectors mislead most. This tool checks the provenance trail and reports honestly when the answer is genuinely mixed — which, for professionally enhanced headshots, it often is.
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What this checks
- Metadata naming headshot and portrait-generation services
- Camera EXIF from the original capture, where it survives regeneration
- C2PA manifests, which some portrait services now attach
- Image classifiers tuned for portrait content
Frequently asked questions
Are AI headshots 'fake' photos?
It depends what you are asking. Most are generated from real photographs of a real person, so they depict someone who exists, but the specific image was never captured by a camera. The tool reports what the file shows rather than adjudicating the label.
Can recruiters use this to screen candidates?
Cautiously, if at all. Using an AI headshot is not misconduct, it is a common and inexpensive alternative to a photographer, and treating a positive result as a red flag would be unfair to candidates.
What about heavily retouched real photos?
Retouching can push a genuine photograph toward the synthetic end of a classifier's judgement. This is a known weakness, and the reason results for portraits carry wider uncertainty.