Meta may soon help you spot AI-generated content, even though its own tools helped flood the internet with it.
The company is reportedly developing a built-in AI detector for Meta AI. This feature that could allow users to upload and analyze content to check whether it was created using artificial intelligence.
A new “AI Detector” menu option was first spotted by TestingCatalog and reported on X. Early screenshots suggest the feature will appear directly inside the Meta AI interface.
Meta’s AI detector is under development
The tool was most likely discovered by enabling internal feature flags in the app’s code. Since the AI detector is still under development, its full capabilities remain unclear.
The detector itself is not active on Meta’s servers yet, and clicking on the AI Detector option simply leads to a broken link.
Since the feature cannot be accessed, it is difficult to determine everything it will eventually do. It may only identify AI-generated text at first and later expand to detect images, audio, or even video.
Is Meta trying to clean up the AI slop it helped create?
Meta has been pushing generative AI tools across its platforms, including Meta AI features that can quickly generate images and other media. The company is also testing a standalone Vibes app where everything you scroll is AI-generated.
Those same tools have contributed to a surge of AI slop, which is a basically low-effort synthetic content spreading across social media feeds. Now Meta appears to be building a system that could help identify the very kind of content its technology creates.
It is also unclear whether the detector will identify AI-generated content from any model or only those built by Meta. Google already offers a similar AI video detection tool in Gemini, and Meta may be moving in the same direction.
Since Meta’s AI detector has not been officially announced, the feature could still change before a public release.