field guides

Field Guides

Not blog posts. Tools you come back to — built once, kept current, meant to be used rather than read once and forgotten.

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AI Generation Forensics

Forensically assess whether media was AI-generated, and roughly which generation of model made it — generational artifacts, forensic techniques, and model-specific fingerprints, across four eras from 2014 to present.

type: interactive timeline coverage: images, video, audio, text last updated: 2026-07-31