Tech Basics

AI-generated pictures and text are now common online. There is no perfect test, and the tools keep improving, but a few habits can help you decide how much to trust what you see. Clues in images Absence of these clues does not prove an image is real, and their presence does not prove it is…

You have probably used a tool powered by a large language model, often shortened to LLM, even if you did not know the name. Chatbots, writing assistants and some search features rely on this kind of system. The short version A large language model is a program trained on a huge amount of text so…