Judgment

How to read an artificial-intelligence story

Three rules for the headline, the photo in the group chat, and the window that says you have a virus. Nopubly does not pick a side. It says what to do before you forward.

Alejandro Carmona · the rules do not change with the headline

Every morning one headline frightens you and another calms you down. Both can be true at once, or neither. Forwarding the screenshot does not clear it up. It hands someone else the job of thinking, and sometimes the link, the payment, or the file.

This page does not move with the day's story. The 8:00 piece applies these rules to what happened. The archive keeps the earlier ones. If tomorrow's headline is different, the judgment is the same.

Don't forward the bare headline

The headline is the newsroom's hook, not the whole fact. Open the story on the site that published it. Look at the date and who signed it. If there is no link, there is no story. There is a message.

If they want speed, a payment, or an install, the topic does not matter. Do not open the file and do not pass the message on. The 25 September piece is that case with two real headlines: one asks to slow artificial intelligence down, the other says there is a zero percent chance the world ends in 2030. Nopubly does not choose. It says not to forward either without the link.

A face is not proof

WhatsApp compresses, crops, and usually strips the metadata. A thumbnail is not the original file. Staring at the ears is no longer enough.

This house's scanner looks at whether the face seems invented from scratch. A retouch of skin, light, or teeth does not count as a photo made by AI, and we do not call it authentic either: that other model fails on real photos. The percentage is not for a judge and not for the group chat. If you want to train your eye on faces that are not in your chat, the real-or-AI challenge is eight faces, half of them people who do not exist.

The phone number in the popup is the scam

A window that will not close, a line that says threats were detected, and a phone number are the problem, not the solution. Do not call. Close what you can without installing anything.

If the device is already misbehaving, removing a virus remotely means a person comes in while you watch the screen. What is set aside goes to quarantine. The disk is not wiped. Windows, the desktop, Chrome, mail, and Microsoft's antivirus are left alone, and the internet is not cut off wholesale. If the mess is mail, a password, or the printer, that is the online technician, not the cleanup.

What belongs to this house, and what belongs to others

Under the piece, the front page is an index. Each headline links to the newsroom, with the date in view. Alejandro Carmona does not sign those texts. He does sign the piece, one a day at 8:00 Madrid time. We do not rewrite someone else's story to keep the click.

The scanner, the challenge, and support are tools, not articles. When a piece mentions the scanner, it means a second opinion on a face.

Questions

Does Nopubly say whether a story is true?

No. We say what to do before you forward it. The fact stays at the linked newsroom. The judgment is ours.

Does the scanner prove a photo is authentic?

No. It says whether a face looks invented from scratch. A retouch does not count as a photo made by AI, and we do not call the picture authentic. It is not evidence in court.

Why does the front page carry other newsrooms' headlines?

Because the index is not the piece. Each headline links to the publisher, with the date in view. The piece, one a day, is what this house signs.

What time does it come out?

At 8:00, Madrid time. One piece. The real-or-AI challenge changes faces with the date.