Limitations

Things VERI-fy will get wrong. And how to use it anyway.

Every detector has a failure surface. Honesty about ours is the only thing that makes the verdicts useful. Read this before you trust a score.

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    False positives on stylized real footage

    Tight crops, heavy color grading, fast motion blur, and cinematic lighting are all things real cameras and editors do every day. They are also things VERI-fy occasionally rates as suspicious. The dead-zone confidence band exists for exactly this case.

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    False negatives on novel models

    VERI-fy looks for known artifact patterns and named tool watermarks. A model that produces a clean frame pair with no watermark and no temporal warping can slip the verdict. We catch these in subsequent updates as the patterns become known. Subscribe to the changelog.

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    Sampling cadence, not stream coverage

    VERI-fy captures every 5 seconds. A 3-second clip that loads, plays, and is gone before the next sample will not be scored.

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    Single-screen capture only

    We capture the primary display. Video on a secondary monitor is not seen.

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    Identity is not source

    Even when the grounding pass identifies a public figure, that does not validate the footage. A real person can share AI-generated content. VERI-fy will say so.

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    Free Gemini tier may train on your screenshots

    If you use a free-tier API key, Google may use the submitted content to improve their products. We surface this in consent and on the Trust page. Use a paid-tier key for sensitive content.

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    No persistent evidence trail

    Detection history lives in RAM and is forgotten when the app closes. VERI-fy is working memory, not an evidence store.

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    VERI-fy is not legal evidence

    Outputs are indicators and scores. Do not use a VERI-fy verdict as the sole basis for any legal, medical, financial, or safety-critical decision.

How to use VERI-fy responsibly

Two rules.

  1. 1 · Treat any verdict with confidence LOW as "unsure."

    The 40 to 60 dead zone is reserved for LOW. If VERI-fy lands there, it is asking you to verify by other means. Do not paste a 50-score verdict into a public note as evidence either way.

  2. 2 · Always pair a verdict with a citation.

    The reasoning paragraph and the artifact boxes exist precisely so you can show your work. A score without the cited artifact is not a defensible claim.

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