About LooksFake AI

Last updated: April 2026

LooksFake AI is a free, privacy-first detection tool that helps you figure out whether text, images, or videos were created by a human or generated by AI. Everything runs in your browser — your content never leaves your device.

Why I Built This

My name is Simon Desjardins-Hogue. I'm a developer based in Montreal, Quebec, and I've spent the last few years building tools that help people protect their privacy and security online.

In 2023 and 2024, I watched AI-generated content explode. Suddenly, my social feeds were full of images that looked real but weren't. Articles that read fine but said nothing original. Videos where someone's face had been swapped onto another body. It was getting harder — fast — to trust what I was seeing online.

I was already running viepriveemondroit.com (a French-language privacy education site) and privacytool.ai, so I understood how much people value tools that respect their data. When I looked at the existing AI detectors on the market, most of them required you to upload your content to their servers. That felt wrong to me. You shouldn't have to give up your privacy to verify someone else's authenticity.

So I built LooksFake AI with one hard rule: your content stays on your device, period. The entire analysis runs locally in your browser. No uploads, no server-side processing, no data collection. I also made a deliberate choice to use heuristic analysis — pattern matching, statistical indicators, metadata inspection — instead of a black-box AI model. That way, you can see exactly which indicators triggered and why something was flagged, instead of getting a mystery percentage from an opaque algorithm.

What Makes LooksFake AI Different

đź”’ Privacy-first

All analysis runs locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or tracked. I built this tool the way I'd want to use it — without having to trust a third party with my content.

🔍 Transparent methodology

Every result shows you exactly which indicators were triggered and why. No hidden scores, no mysterious confidence percentages from a model you can't inspect. You see what I see.

đź’° Free forever

I believe detection tools are too important to lock behind a paywall. LooksFake AI is free, and it will stay that way. The site is supported by ads, not by selling your data.

📚 Educational focus

I don't just tell you "this is probably AI-generated." I teach you how to spot the patterns yourself. The goal is to make you better at critical evaluation, not dependent on my tool.

How Detection Works

LooksFake AI uses heuristic analysis across three content types. Here's a brief overview — for more details, see the detection guide.

An honest note about limitations

No detection tool is perfect — mine included. AI generation is improving constantly, and heuristic analysis will always have false positives and false negatives. I designed LooksFake AI to give you informed signals, not definitive verdicts. Think of it as a second pair of eyes, not a judge.

About the Creator

I'm Simon Desjardins-Hogue — a developer and privacy advocate based in Montreal, Canada. I build free tools that help everyday people navigate the internet more safely, without sacrificing their privacy.

Besides LooksFake AI, I maintain a suite of privacy and security projects:

You can find me on LinkedIn.

Contact Us

Have a question, found a bug, or want to suggest an improvement? I read every message.

Email: viepriveemondroit@pm.me