Check Before You Believe.
Is It Real? Or Is Something Else Going On?
Media Checker analyzes images and video for signs of synthetic generation, manipulation, transformation, recapture, file degradation and other forensic inconsistencies. Because the question is rarely as simple as “real or fake.”
Check Images and Videos Before You Trust Them
- Was this image generated by AI?
- Has this photograph been materially manipulated?
- Is this a camera-derived image or a reconstruction?
- Has this media been copied, re-encoded or recaptured?
- Does the available evidence support the story being told about the file?
Media Checker is not a “truth machine.” It is an evidence-analysis system. Open beta · no account required.
More Than an AI Detector
Most tools ask one question: was this made by AI? Media Checker examines a broader problem — AI-generated, AI-assisted, digitally manipulated, composited, inpainted, heavily re-encoded, screen-captured, photographed from another screen, stripped of metadata, or reposted with misleading context.
Eight Engines. One Evidence Framework.
Independent systems rather than a single authenticity percentage. Observations, confidence, interpretation and policy stay separate.
01
Media Forensics
Measurable characteristics within digital media.
02
Forensic Coherence
Whether independent observations agree.
03
Evidence Aggregation
Organizes signals without collapsing them to one score.
04
Policy
What the evidence is allowed to support.
05
Uncertainty
Incomplete files stay uncertain.
06
Behavioral Hesitation
Uncertainty in the story around the media.
07
Collective Judgment
Whether agreement around a file looks independent.
08
Adversarial Resistance
Whether the decision environment itself can be trusted.
Visual coherence
You can hide a droplet. You cannot hide a river.
A photograph behaves like a body of water. Grain is locally chaotic, but it is the same fluid. A noisy pixel is a droplet. A reconstruction is a river. Media Checker no longer asks which detector fired. It asks whether the neighbourhood holds together.
Same Scene. Different Digital Histories.
Two images can depict the same paddock while having completely different forensic characteristics. Media Checker does not ask whether the subject looks familiar. It examines the digital evidence surrounding the file itself.
Camera still
Likely original capture
Grain and light behave like one photograph. Small irregularities fade when we look at the object.
Reconstruction
Likely synthetic
The picture may be internally consistent — a painting is still a painting — but the fluid is different.
What Media Checker Can — and Cannot — Tell You
It analyzes digital evidence. It cannot independently prove who created an image, where or when it was taken, whether a caption is true, whether a person is lying, motive, or the complete history of a file.
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Learn How Digital Media Actually Works.
Media Checker analyzes the file. ICBM Magazine explains the larger problem.
Explore ICBM MagazineHow It Works
Evidence in. Structured analysis out.
Upload an image or video. Independent engines examine forensic characteristics. You receive a plain-language verdict with what the evidence can — and cannot — support.
- 1. Provide the file — not a screenshot of a screenshot if you can avoid it.
- 2. Engines inspect generation, manipulation, recapture and file history.
- 3. Policy keeps the system from over-claiming when evidence is thin.
The Engines
Eight independent questions, not one percentage.
AI image detector, AI video detector, deepfake detector, manipulation, generation originality and secondary-capture detection sit inside one evidence framework.
Visual coherence
You can hide a droplet. You cannot hide a river.
A photograph is like a body of water. Grain and light are locally chaotic — but they are the same fluid. A noisy pixel is a droplet. It vanishes when you look at the neighbourhood. A reconstruction, a splice, a generated object: that is a river.
Media Checker no longer asks which detector fired. It asks whether the evidence is coherent across the entire image. Ordinary checkers average weak opinions into one polite percentage. That is how everything becomes 59%.
Same paddock
Two files. Two fluids.
Left is a camera still. Right is a reconstruction of the same scene. Droplets fade. A different fluid does not.
Chel · original
The neighbourhood holds together.
Grain and light behave like one photograph. Small irregularities appear at pixel scale and fade when we look at the object.
Chel · rebuilt
This does not behave like a camera photograph.
The image may be internally consistent, but a reconstruction of a real place is still a new object.
Pricing
Choose your level of analysis
Open beta: check media without an account. Paid plans stay listed for later.
Beta
Open access
$0
Eight engines · visual coherence · plain-language verdict · no account · no media retained here
Check mediaLater
Premium
$12
per month · unlimited still analyses, in-feed copies, evidence drawer
Professional
$29.99
per seat · browser video signals, distribution engine, every Media Checker engine
Live Demo
Check your media.
Open beta is live. Send a file you want examined, or start with product questions. We do not keep a public drop-box of other people’s media on this page.
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About
Media Checker
A digital media analysis platform for AI generation, manipulation, transformation, secondary capture and loss of original-source evidence. The domain is mediachecker.ca. ICBM Magazine remains the independent editorial channel.
