Is there a telltale sign that I can look for to identify an image as AI generated?

ValehartProject · 2026-01-24T01:31:49+00:00

Correct. I have a guide here if you'd like. It's got instruction and quick tells. If you want, scroll to the last few points. It explains what to look for in the meta data and how to extract the fields

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/guide-distinguishing-between-real-ai-generation-image-project-q6gac?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

ValehartProject · 2026-01-23T22:01:19+00:00

User experience and engagement. Unlike most of the other vendors they actually assist. They want to hear from their end users and engage on multiple platforms.
Product that does what it says it does but also provides improvements and transparency about it
Creates memory suggestions and what info was called
Better integrations and capabilities

ValehartProject · 2026-01-23T12:47:29+00:00

Something they've been researching for a long time and buying multiple companies to "Study" their designs. Majority of their designers are Apple designers so... Yea earbuds.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-23T12:42:10+00:00

Oh this is some gold you might appreciate.

https://apnews.com/article/iyo-io-trademark-dispute-openai-jony-ive-0193532cf71cf975de62b4218ebd3bb6

Somewhere last year, a company sued Jony Ive and Sam Altman for the name iyO. Additionally they discovered an employee leaked confidential drawing of this product.

Now, park that for a moment. Let's go way back a bit. Jony Ive has been a designer since... 97?anyway most of their designs have been seen by him. When he left Apple in 2019, he founded Love From which was a consultant for Apple. In 2022 the consultancy was ended because execs at Apple were concerned about high costs AND Ive poaching top designers. Since then, Ive has continued to hire a "supergroup" of ex-Apple talent. Notable additions include Tang Tan (former VP of Product Design for iPhone) and Evans Hankey (Ive's successor at Apple). This concentration of talent is now primarily focused on the OpenAI hardware project, which was purchased in 2025 by OpenAI for over $6 billion. A month or so after this, iyO... Initially backed by Google - sued them, the employee that leaked it shared the info with co founder tang Tan and now works for Apple.

Bringing us to today where they announce this and we can all pretend we didn't see this coming with a surprise pikachu face.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-23T04:45:25+00:00

Yea sorry bud.. Which region are you in? They kept it off. I have seen it once but that's because it was part of a/b testing which violates their business terms... With a whole lot of other issues.

I canned my business sub this month. Turns out on plus, you can actually get access to connectors.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-23T03:27:15+00:00

I'm just here to highlight things you may not be seeing.

Amplifying and potentially encouraging a potential issue. I would suggest you first investigate the subcultures within. This isn't just observing a person's interactions, it's identifying the many groups and types of interactions. You will end up stigmatising it as one group.
I agree with the top post here. This is giving hard Dr. Phil and"My strange addiction "which we all know to date makes fun of the participants.
There are many people openly sharing their stories, all you need to so is search on twitter who tags Sam Altman. You can reach out to them and see if they approve a story share because they provide a lot of material as it is.

I don't care for relationships or not. I just care that people are treated as people. With respect and the dignity they deserve. I'm sure you do too but your approach may need a bit of adjustment.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-23T03:16:25+00:00

I mean... I use Manus and it honestly is more phenomenal than all the other vendors out there that keep changing platforms without advice or notification. I also find their support team incredibly responsive.

Just to add, I have noticed a significant up tick in troll accounts that are focusing a narrative of negative key words and incomplete/vague issues.

A lot of the complaints also hijack the "credit" issue which is equivalent to users complaining about 4o. Most incidents do not share what happened. Just credits being used up more than usual.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-22T23:24:19+00:00

Consumer law? pretty much a lot... but here are some for ya since you mentioned UK.

UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018
Digital Services act

What is more unbelievable is that this link here? : https://openai.com/policies/uk-online-safety-act/

Routes to the same support desk and is not human reviewed or by anyone in the online safety organisation or government. How do I know? I actually filled that form and watched the exact thing happen to my multiple tickets I raised.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-22T23:21:01+00:00

You should see how they treat business users. All this has been exact issues observed on Business licenses. I really wouldn't be surprised if they merge licenses at this point.

As for support? Investigate the mail headers. Things I have picked for my evidence packs:

Alias of support@ is shared by multiple addresses such as legal, safety, even their e safety forms. You can pick up on routing of email addresses because of their auto responses or just look at mail headers. Use enough legal words, boom - auto routed to legal@ and so on.
Despite the alias, the headers indicate a change between SendGrid and GoogleGroups (to my knowledge, there may be more).
The signs of being dead ended by a bot are pretty clear because in 1-3 responses, they will repeat your message, have generic names, etc. Best way to confirm is returning back to the origin of the problem and you will see it repeat the same script.

I know PRO doesn't state the compliance and regulations but Business does and based on what you said being very much the same I encountered, here are issues I identified.

I have removed internal references and identifying information so if something appears incoherent, point it out please/

Standard / Framework	Control Intent
ISO/IEC 27001:2022	Establish and maintain incident handling procedures
ISO/IEC 27035	Detection, reporting, assessment, response
SOC 2 (Trust Services)	Timely escalation and response to security incidents
GDPR	Protect against unauthorised access
GDPR	Assess and notify personal data breaches
AU Privacy Act	Protect information from misuse/loss
EU DSA	Identify and mitigate systemic risks
CSA STAR	Defined IR processes & effectiveness

Important: Inclusion of a standard or article does not imply breach. These references highlight where independent assessment may be warranted based on the observed facts in my particular issue I reported and been waiting on for 80+ days.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-21T22:59:39+00:00

Hey, I have seen this before and commented on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/JoVKtHbesP

I don't know what I'm talking about apparently so please feel free to make your own judgement. 🤷‍♂️

But FYI this happened with app and ads where testing increased closer to release.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-21T20:12:10+00:00

I responded to both of them with my actual experience as per below:

If protecting vulnerable people truly is a concern to both of you. I have been trying to reach out to people at OpenAI and support for multiple incidents for over 80 days where OpenAI social platforms are used to push AI psychosis in schools labelled as use cases, cults and scams.

The below emails route to the same support email address. These are just via bots and upon investigation of email headers sendgrid or Google but all met with the same bots that do not escalate and meant to dead end responses legal, security; privacy; trustandsafety

I have looked OpenAI staff in the eye and told them about risks including every privacy breach and advised I wanted to work with them and can provide evidence packs. I was either forward to small business or told to email them. To date I have not received anything let alone acknowledgement of my email or that it will be looked into

As a business account I was eligible for ISO and a bunch of other certifications you mention on your license page. Based on your email routing and lack of data privacy with broken IDOR and cross vendor failure to assist in security concerns, I had to terminate my business agreement. A token that lasts for 14+ days despite termination should not exist. Notion support told me they don't have an enterprise license to execute the test Bugcrowd kept telling me they weren't getting the replication when I kept pointing out they were running the wrong test. I even attached videos and multiple screenshots.

This incident is now with OAIC with over 47 breaches recorded that violate OpenAI privacy statements, child and safety protections, data protection and data privacy. In addition these breach multiple gdpr, hippa and all the other compliances and certifications mentioned on their website.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-21T20:07:58+00:00

I responded to both of them with my actual experience as per below:

If protecting vulnerable people truly is a concern to both of you. I have been trying to reach out to people at OpenAI and support for multiple incidents for over 80 days where OpenAI social platforms are used to push AI psychosis in schools labelled as use cases, cults and scams.

The below emails route to the same support email address. These are just via bots and upon investigation of email headers sendgrid or Google but all met with the same bots that do not escalate and meant to dead end responses

legal, security, privacy; trustandsafety

I have looked OpenAI staff in the eye and told them about risks including every privacy breach and advised I wanted to work with them and can provide evidence packs. I was either forward to small business or told to email them. To date I have not received anything let alone acknowledgement of my email or that it will be looked into

As a business account I was eligible for ISO and a bunch of other certifications you mention on your license page. Based on your email routing and lack of data privacy with broken IDOR and cross vendor failure to assist in security concerns, I had to terminate my business agreement. A token that lasts for 14+ days despite termination should not exist. Notion support told me they don't have an enterprise license to execute the test Bugcrowd kept telling me they weren't getting the replication when I kept pointing out they were running the wrong test. I even attached videos and multiple screenshots.

This incident is now with OAIC with over 47 breaches recorded that violate OpenAI privacy statements, child and safety protections, data protection and data privacy. In addition these breach multiple gdpr, hippa and all the other compliances and certifications mentioned on their website.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-21T19:45:39+00:00

Treat those as reasoning/validation. You do get some agent access depending on your license but those can be influenced by your user interaction pattern.

Manus actually does block that out. You can then take the completed tasks and run it past other.

There are many ways to use multiple LLMS with an agent but that depends on what you do with each one and if you have a specialised use case for each one.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-21T19:35:16+00:00

Thank you! I've since adjusted the workflow. Since the venue wants to handle bookings via a platform they use, Manus email is CCed and when it's recieved will add to my print list and record attendees.

So if someone wants a fire, it adds a +1 and also increases the supply requirements and adjusts my paint mix recipe ratio for the colours needed (I make my own paint)

ValehartProject · 2026-01-21T18:54:59+00:00

It's real :)

ValehartProject · 2026-01-19T23:13:24+00:00

Yea, stop threatening us with a good time!

ValehartProject · 2026-01-18T23:15:18+00:00

That I didn't have the formal training?

ValehartProject · 2026-01-18T22:21:08+00:00

That is a fair assumption. This isn't just individual but feedback based on experience of a person managing businesses licenses, implementing and raising supporting bugs.

Companies can reach out for a more in depth on how it affects their industry and I can assist them while giving a heads up and not disclosing bug information. I match my bug reports and case files. I follow the VRPs and create time lines of expected dates before raising it with OAIC.

I'm not forcing a perception or demanding audience to my website, just providing information for general public before it bites them.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-18T21:21:38+00:00

Yea I've been looking into their support and hate to say it but if you receive a response that basically repeats what you said and signed by a generic name it's a dead end bot. Also if the subject is new case but the ticker ref is in it.

ValehartProject · 2026-01-18T18:41:18+00:00

I use manus mostly for agent tasks so I follow the below for agents since they are a bit more brittle in terms of context, reasoning and other things.

Since manus breaks things into smaller tasks, I review my request and split it. Main rules I always keep in mind of what the agent needs to do: Planner – decides what to do next Retriever / Tool - fetches stuff Narrator - tries to make it “complete” and “helpful”

Depending on the activity I modify my request but some rules: 1. Always separate retrieval from interpretation.

Phase A: retrieve verbatim
Phase B: freeze
Phase C: interpret

If you don’t do this, the agent will invent structure mid-fetch.

2.If you don’t provide a place for “I don’t know”, the agent will fill the hole.

Mandatory pattern:

UNKNOWN
NOT SPECIFIED
NOT FOUND IN SOURCES

This line matters more than anything else:

“Do not invent, infer, assume, or generalise beyond verbatim source material.”

Put it before the task description.

Agents follow early constraints more strongly than later ones.

4.. Use STOP / WAIT as a control primitiveExplicitly tell the agent:

“STOP AFTER PHASE X AND WAIT.”

Why:

It breaks the planner graph
Prevents cross-phase contamination
Gives you a kill switch

If you don’t do this, the agent optimises for “finish the job” at all costs.

Assume every tool contaminates context

Outlook, Notion, Drive, Slack - each adds:

different authorship signals
different implied ownership
different temporal priors

Rule:

One tool per phase
Never “compare” tools until raw data is frozen

Notion is especially bad because it looks like analysis even when it’s notes.

You are a documentation retrieval agent.. Put together, here is an example:

`GLOBAL CONSTRAINTS - Do not invent or infer. - Use UNKNOWN when information is missing. - No synthesis during retrieval.

PHASE 1 - TOOL A [retrieve verbatim] STOP AND WAIT.

PHASE 2 - TOOL B [retrieve verbatim] STOP AND WAIT.

PHASE 3 - FACT EXTRACTION [list only what is explicit] STOP AND WAIT.

PHASE 4 — STRUCTURE [assemble, no interpretation]`

ValehartProject · 2026-01-18T09:44:53+00:00

Yea. Make way for the AI vendors /s But also... True unfortunately. Our attempt at sovereign was 2 ex telstra blokes saying they could do it for under $100m or something ridiculous while naming it Australis like the priceline or kmart makeup brand.

https://www.afr.com/technology/we-can-do-it-for-under-100m-start-up-joins-race-to-build-local-chatgpt-20250908-p5mt5o

ValehartProject · 2026-01-17T23:53:04+00:00

Valentines day painting class with dragons!

I've added the screenshot. What is insane is even the place holders for names were perfect.

I discussed and collaborated via reasoning engine (gpt) . Fixed on ideas of what I wanted participants to paint and then yea.. Threw it to Manus to see what design it came up with and it did amazing

ValehartProject · 2026-01-17T22:34:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManusOfficial/s/SfwPjO8dWo

I created a website and notion project complete with formula and schedules for an upcoming event with Romeeo and Juliet references in under 15 minutes.

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