Start with the claim
If someone says a picture documents a particular event, trace its source and surrounding publication. If you are evaluating whether a supplied portrait accurately represents you, compare it with your own originals. A detector score does not replace either task.
Keep evidence separate
- Record known source pages and dates as source evidence.
- Record detector output as a tool estimate, if used.
- Check captions and any available creation history.
- State uncertainties rather than combining numbers into a false certainty.
A real photograph may have been heavily edited. A generated image may have no prior searchable copy. An empty reverse search therefore does not establish that a file is AI-generated, and a match does not establish that its caption is true.
Choose a proportionate next step
For a consequential claim, ask for the original file or a credible publisher's explanation. Avoid accusing a person based on a single automated output. The useful result is a better-supported account of the picture's source and limitations.
Continue with copy search and face search explained.