Two pieces of what I can only call AI slop crossed my desk recently. Both looked credible, but both had real problems. Is it real, or is it fake? The first was a storm-damage photo of a silver BMW crushed under a fallen tree. Experience flagged it fast: a lifted root plate and a fractured base on the same tree, power lines running through the canopy undisturbed, garbled badge lettering. Then I cropped it. The tells disappeared, and what remained was a tight, plausible imag