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Real or Fake AI Game — All Quiz Modes

Can you tell real from AI-generated? Choose a category below and play — photos, videos, quotes and more. Each quiz mode targets a different type of AI content, with different models and different tells to look for.

📷 Image Quizzes

Static image rounds — 2–4 images per round, 1 real, the rest AI-generated.

🎬 Video Quizzes

Short looping clips — motion artifacts and temporal consistency are the key tells.

📝 Text Quizzes

Can you tell AI-written text from the real thing?

⚔️ Multiplayer

Compete live against another player — real-time scoring, 10 rounds.

🏫 For Teachers & Classrooms

Run the quiz live with a whole class — teacher hosts, students join by code.

🤖 AI Models & Comparisons

Background reading on the models behind the quizzes.

Where the difficulty ratings come from

Not a guess — this is what players actually score, recomputed nightly from 7,267 rounds. Every category below shows four images per round, one of them real, so pure guessing would score 25% and the percentages are directly comparable. Hardest first:

CategoryFound the real photoRounds
Nature41%963
Cars43%756
Sport & action43%333
Buildings & places46%958
Famous paintings56%820
People58%1,220
Animals60%1,324
Food62%893

Nature is currently the hardest at 41%, and food the easiest at 62% — but note that even the easiest category means a third of players still pick an AI image as the real one.

An honest limitation: the categories do not use identical model line-ups, so part of the spread may come from which generators happen to appear where rather than from the subject itself. The original July 2026 analysis separates what the data can and cannot support, and our methodology explains how these figures are computed.

Which mode should you start with?

If you have never played, start with Famous Paintings or Food. Both sit above 60% accuracy, which means you will get enough right to see the pattern instead of feeling that the whole thing is a coin flip. Paintings in particular reward slow looking: the differences are there, they just need a second pass.

Once that feels comfortable, move to Animals or People. These hover around 50%, and they are where the classic advice starts to fail — modern generators handle fur, skin and individual faces well, so the remaining errors are relational rather than anatomical: a paw meeting the ground wrongly, a hand gripping without pressure, two people interacting in a physically impossible way.

Save Cars and Buildings for last. They are the hardest in practice, and they teach a different lesson: that recognising a subject is not the same as verifying a photograph.

The video modes sit outside this progression entirely. Video gives you a time axis to work with, which makes it markedly easier — errors that a still image can hide for one frame become obvious across five seconds. If images feel discouraging, video is a good place to rebuild confidence.

Why separate info pages per category?

Every quiz category on WhichOneIsReal uses different AI models and tests different perceptual skills. Food images fail differently than deepfake videos. Each info page explains the specific models used, the difficulty, and what details to focus on — so you can improve your detection skills systematically rather than guessing.

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