PixoraidAIScan
Tool-specific detector

Check if an image was made in Midjourney

Midjourney's distinct, highly stylized output is often easy to spot — but its photorealistic modes and v7+ outputs are increasingly convincing. Pixoraid checks the underlying forensic signal, not just the style.

Why Midjourney images can be harder to eyeball than they used to be

Early Midjourney versions had an easily recognizable painterly, over-sharpened look. Recent versions (v6/v7 and photorealistic style presets) can produce images that pass a casual glance as real photography — which is exactly why relying on "it just looks AI" stopped being a reliable method.

What Pixoraid checks

  • Missing or generic metadata — Midjourney images downloaded from Discord or the web app carry no camera EXIF.
  • Diffusion-model noise signatures that differ statistically from real camera sensor noise.
  • Texture consistency in complex regions like hair, foliage, and fabric.
  • Compression history — how the image has been re-encoded since it left Midjourney (Discord and Instagram both re-compress heavily).

Because Discord and social re-shares recompress images aggressively, some forensic signal is often already degraded by the time you have the file — Pixoraid accounts for this and will return "uncertain" rather than force a confident guess on a heavily recompressed image.

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Upload to the free Pixoraid scanner for a verdict, probability score, and full evidence breakdown. For images from other generators, see our ChatGPT image detector, Nano Banana detector, or DALL-E detector pages, or the general AI image detector overview.

Need to check a video instead? Pixoraid also has a frame-by-frame AI video detector.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Midjourney watermark its images?

Midjourney does not apply a visible watermark by default, and any embedded metadata is easily stripped by re-saving, screenshotting, or re-uploading to social platforms — so forensic detection is the more reliable check.

Can this detector tell Midjourney apart from other AI art tools?

Pixoraid focuses on the more reliable real-vs-AI-generated question rather than attributing a specific generator, since style and forensic signals overlap heavily across diffusion-based tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe Firefly.

Why does my Midjourney screenshot come back 'uncertain'?

Screenshots strip metadata entirely and re-encode the image, destroying some forensic signal. An 'uncertain' result on a screenshot is the detector being honest about reduced evidence, not a malfunction.