Visuals
AI often struggles with these "digits", sometimes giving a person six or seven on one hand.
What are fingers?
This common website test asks you to click on all the "traffic lights" or "crosswalks" to prove you’re human.
What is CAPTCHA?
AI writing is often criticized for being too "neutral" or lacking this personal "perspective" that comes from lived experience.
What is voice or opinion?
In deepfake videos, the frequency of this natural eye movement is often unnaturally low or rhythmic.
What is blinking?
This 5-letter term refers to the specific, often sarcastic way humans speak; AI usually takes it literally, missing the hidden meaning.
What is Irony (or Sarcasm)?
This term describes the unsettled feeling humans get when a robot or AI image looks almost, but not quite human.
What is the Uncally Valley Effect?
This 3-letter term refers to the "hallucinated" facts AI provides when it doesn't know the real answer.
What is a lie?
AI tends to start paragraphs with repetitive transition words, most commonly this 12-letter word meaning "in addition."
What is Furthermore?
To spot a fake audio clip, listeners should check for the lack of this—the natural "uhms," "ahs," or breaths humans take.
What are filler words or disfluencies?
This is the term for the personal data an AI doesn't have, which prevents it from saying things like, "I remember the smell of rain in my childhood home."
What is Lived Experience?
In AI-generated text or images of crowds, this background element is often "gibberish" or nonsensical squiggles.
What is written text or signage?
He proposed the "Imitation Game" in 1950 to see if a machine could pass as a person in conversation.
Who is Alan Turing?
This "P" word refers to the specific instructions a human gives an AI to get a desired output.
What is a Prompt?
This term describes a video where one person’s face is digitally swapped onto another’s body using AI.
What is a Deepfake?
AI often fails to understand these "inside jokes" or pop-culture shorthand that rely on a shared human history from a specific time or place.
What are Memes (or Cultural References)?
Look for "liquid" or "melting" textures in these, which AI often fails to render as distinct, interlocking strands.
What is human hair?
This term describes the intuitive understanding of physical reality—like "gravity"—that AI often lacks.
What is Common Sense Reasoning?
AI detectors often measure "burstiness," which refers to the human tendency to vary the length of these.
What are sentences?
When analyzing a video of a person speaking, check if these don't perfectly match the sounds being made.
What are lip movements?
In linguistics, this field refers to how context contributes to meaning; AI struggles with it because it treats every sentence as a math problem rather than a social interaction.
What are Pragmatics?
Specific jewelry that often don't match or seem to float without being attached.
What are earrings?
This digital "signature" or metadata can be embedded in files to prove they were captured by a real camera, not an AI.
What is a Watermark or Content Credential?