How do I check if a photo is AI-generated?

Upload the photo to Popped! (or paste it with Ctrl/⌘+V). In about a second you get one of three answers — Original, Photoshopped or AI = Popped! — with plain-English reasons, a tamper heatmap and a list of every check we ran. It's free on the website.

Can Popped! detect ChatGPT, Gemini (Nano Banana) and Midjourney images?

Yes. Three deep-learning detectors trained on 2025–26 generators — including GPT-Image, Gemini / Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney 7, Seedream, FLUX and Grok — work together, and Popped! also reads AI tags, Content Credentials (C2PA) and Gemini's visible sparkle watermark. In our evaluation the ensemble caught 87% of AI images at a 1% false-alarm rate.

How to check if a photo is original or not?

Drop it into Popped! — it's a free real or fake photo checker. It reads the hidden metadata, compares compression across the picture (Error Level Analysis), looks for cloned areas and runs AI image detection, then tells you Original, Photoshopped or AI = Popped! with the reasons. For important decisions, also zoom into text and shadows and reverse-search the image.

Is there a free photoshop detector app?

Popped! works as a photoshop detector and fake image detector right in your phone's browser — Android or iPhone, nothing to install. Add popped.info to your home screen and it opens like an app. It's free for everyone on the website.

How does Popped! know a photo was Photoshopped?

It looks for editing-app signatures (Photoshop, PicsArt, Canva, Snapseed, PixelLab and 40+ more), Error Level Analysis anomalies where text or seals were pasted, clone-stamped regions that duplicate camera noise, and camera thumbnails that no longer match the photo.

Will a WhatsApp-forwarded photo be marked fake?

No. WhatsApp strips metadata and re-compresses every photo, so Popped! treats missing EXIF and WhatsApp compression as neutral. On 142 real smartphone photos, also re-sent through WhatsApp-style compression, only 1 was flagged.

Is my photo stored or used for training?

No. Photos are analysed only in memory and discarded as soon as the answer is sent. They are never written to disk, logged, shared or used to train models.

Is the AI detector 100% accurate?

No detector is. Popped! is a fast screening tool: treat an AI = Popped! or Photoshopped result as a reason for a closer human look, not as proof on its own.

Is there an API for businesses?

Yes. Food-delivery, e-commerce, quick-commerce, insurance and HR platforms can call POST /api/v1/check from their refund or onboarding flow at ₹1 per photo, with monthly plans for high volume.

Fake Refund Photos in India: How Food Delivery and E-commerce Teams Can Catch Them

By Vikram Pagadala
9 November 2026 · 5 min read

Refund requests used to need a real broken product. Today a free AI app can produce a convincing photo of a spilled curry or a crushed box in seconds. Here is what refund teams in India are seeing, and a fair way to screen photos.

The three kinds of fake refund photos

Fully AI-generated photos — a meal or parcel that never existed.
Real photos edited with AI or Photoshop — a stain, tear or insect added to a genuine order.
Recycled photos — the same picture submitted for several orders or downloaded from the internet.

A fair screening process

1Check every refund photo automatically (Popped!'s API takes about a second per photo).
2Approve Original photos as usual — don't add friction for honest customers.
3For Photoshopped or AI = Popped! results, ask for a second photo or a short video instead of rejecting outright.
4Use the photo fingerprint (perceptual hash) to spot the same image across different orders and accounts.

WhatsApp-forwarded photos and missing metadata are treated as normal, which keeps false alarms low for real customers.

What it costs

At ₹1 per photo check, a single blocked fake refund of ₹1,820 pays for 1,820 checks. Checking is free for individuals on popped.info.

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