What is Shamshot?
Each day, Shamshot shows three scenes and asks you to decide whether each is real or fake. A Snapshot is an authentic photo or video, even when the scene seems hard to believe. A Shamshot is fabricated with AI or Photoshop. Scenes can be still images or videos with a timeline bar, and each one comes with a caption stating what it supposedly shows.
How to play Shamshot
- Watch the day's scene. If it is a video, replay it; the site's motto encourages watching twice.
- Read the caption, which describes the scene's supposed origin and context.
- Choose Snapshot for authentic or Shamshot for fake using the two buttons at the bottom.
- Continue to the next scene. The daily set has three scenes.
The game treats AI-generated images and traditional photomontage alike: both count as Shamshots. A Snapshot is 100 percent authentic. A Shamshot can be made by any method, old or new, as long as it manipulates reality. You choose one answer for each scene, with no confidence scale or hedging.
Tips for better judgment
Implausibility alone does not prove fakery. Some authentic scenes are hard to believe, and the game warns you about that trap. If a photo shows something absurd but real, choosing Shamshot is still wrong.
The caption is part of what you’re judging. A precise, dated caption can make an image seem credible, but it does not prove anything about the image itself. Traditional deception works in either direction: a real caption paired with a manipulated scene, or a fake caption attached to a real image taken out of context.
Shamshot uses three scenes a day, keeping the exercise short. Feedback comes immediately, the layout stays neutral, and the practice builds over time. It trains a skill that is no longer optional.