Published two days ago
(July 10, 2026)

By Calum Watson, BBC Scotland and Aimee Stanton, BBC Scotland data visualisation unit

Psychologist Dr Clare Sutherland is holding up two large photos. One shows the face of an Australian academic leading an international research study; the other is an AI-generated deepfake.

Artificial intelligence has become so adept at creating realistic images, it is increasingly hard to figure out what is real or not.

But can people be trained to spot an image of a human that has actually been created by a machine?

That's a question Sutherland, from the University of Aberdeen, and her Australian colleague have been examining.
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