Even the head of an AI-detection startup reaches for the oldest public heuristic — count the hands. It's a shaky tell: newer image generators have largely fixed anatomy, and real photos get falsely accused of being synthetic all the time. The telling part is the default reaction — you now assume 'AI' on sight, and the burden of proof flips onto whoever posted the image. That's exactly the 'liar's dividend' environment where provenance standards like C2PA and proper detectors matter far more than finger-counting. A light post, but it captures the 2026 mood: nobody trusts pixels anymore.