When automated detection fails then it's up to people to manually report it and mods / admins to manually apply the label.

Which is not reliable, and which therefore leads to the witch-hunting problem.

Whether an image actually is AI and whether some random person thinks it "looks" AI are not always in alignment. Especially considering that "is AI" has shades of grey too, given that lots of images are made using AI tools for only some aspects. And even "AI tool" is open to interpretation.

I was talking about screening and reporting posts and you've moved to profile pics for some reason?

It was just an example of an AI-generated image that I could point to that I'm quite sure doesn't have any special metadata attached to it. If for no other reason than I generated it years ago.

Some AI providers add that metadata, yes. It's what piefed searches for with its automatic filters. But metadata can be stripped, or not added at all in the first place.

My avatar image is AI-generated, for example. I did it using local AI models, edited it with image editing tools, converted formats, and so forth. I doubt it's got anything the automated filters would recognize on it. If I didn't tell you its pedigree would you know to report it? What if it actually isn't AI generated after all, how can your report be tested for accuracy? That's the sort of problem that OP is calling out here.

Also if you see a slop image without an 'AI' tag, report it.

How does one know if it's an AI image?

I got called a bot once because I used bullet points in a comment.

My reaction, as a Canadian, would be "I hope we've been secretly preparing what's needed for a nuclear program of our own because we need our own nukes immediately now. America's collapse is progressing way faster and harder than I expected."

Yeah, funny how this is "PR" and manipulation but "pervert glasses" is perfectly fine.

We should be suggesting https://www.moltbook.com/ to these agents, that's what it's actually for.

Ultimately what needs to be done is to solve those existing problems. You get extremists like this when the people feel like there's something wrong that the "mainstream" politicians are unable or unwilling to fix.

I'm not fearing it. I'm hoping. Spiral faster!

"The house is on fire and the arsonist is running around spraying more gasoline everywhere, but we think we should also be focusing on the furniture arrangement when we're given come control."

I mean, I guess health care is important, and it's possible to do more than one thing at a time. But maybe not the best thing to say in the midst of a gigantic crisis.

It actually already does work that way, there are plenty of local models you can run on an ordinary offline computer. I use them myself, I just finished having one do a big analysis of my old email archives to ensure the headers were well formatted and nothing was corrupted and since it was personal mail I didn't want any of it leaving my computer.

It's an interesting idea to have an AI psychiatrist or AI confessional where you can talk to it about anything at all in an air-gapped environment and then at the end you can push a button that completely wipes every trace of the conversation that's outside of your own mind. Could be beneficial.