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[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

How to check for AI involvement: https://t.co/IhQX18IN3p – a curated collection of articles and tools for detecting and understanding deepfakes; https://t.co/Ltksz2RoXW – checks images and audio files (free: 10 checks per month);

https://t.co/sqd35qUwvF – detects whether a text was AI-generated (free: up to 2,500 characters);
https://t.co/8ZBE9zrVoE – detects whether an image was AI-generated;

https://t.co/eFOt9SOps4 – determines whether a text was written by a human or AI (free: up to 5,000 characters).

https://t.co/gouiCdMz4M — checks whether a photo was generated by https://t.co/njf22JKHwF specifically.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

Does the amount of AI-generated content online scare you too? Here's how to spot it and protect yourself.

"AI detectors" are not a guaranteed way to spot AI-generated content — it's better to look at a combination of signs. In images, look for anatomical errors (extra fingers, unnatural bends, etc.), unreadable text, repeating patterns — anything that looks off. You can also try reverse image search to find the original if it's a "remixed photo."

Here's a great example of a typical AI-generated image: notice the clear anatomical errors, artifacts around the hands, unnaturally smooth skin, and the oddly blurred background that doesn't match the lighting on the subjects.
Smiles are worth paying attention to too — AI often gets them slightly wrong, whether that's an unrealistic number of teeth or an unnaturally perfect, almost uncanny look.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

In texts, watch for impersonal writing: vague, generic phrases and templated expressions. Fact-check dates, numbers, and quotes — AI tends to fabricate them. Mass publishing of similar content with the same tone and style is also a sign of generation.

AI text often tries to sound human — and that's exactly what gives it away. AI text often tries to sound human — and that's exactly what gives it away. Common patterns include grouping things in threes ("smart, fast, and reliable"), parallel structures ("not only this, but also that"), and descriptions that feel overly polished. ChatGPT has a particular love for rocket emojis in subheadings 🚀, and em dashes — the long dashes used to add extra information — have become so linked to AI writing that some people have started avoiding them altogether. None of these signs is conclusive on its own, but when several appear together frequently, it's worth being skeptical.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

Try to use: https://t.co/Mu9SaF0yWa

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

Our team built OSINT Stividor — a local app for information gathering & analysis.

Key Features:

• project logs with text, links & files
• tags, tasks & entry connections
• people & company profiles
• connection graph visualization
• interactive search
🌐 RU / UA / EN

How it works:

1. Create a project & paste in text, links or files
2. Everything is saved automatically — links go to a separate section, files become attachments
3. Tag your entries & filter instantly

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

The Profiles Summary displays all created people and company profiles in one place. Add standalone profiles, create custom fields, copy filled fields to clipboard, and mark any profile as important to highlight it in red.

Images show as thumbnails — click to open an editor with crop, zoom, rotate, and drawing tools.

Videos also show as thumbnails — click to open a player with variable speed, frame-by-frame playback and screenshot capture. Screenshots save as separate entries, with timestamps shown in the player for quick navigation.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

We somehow stumbled into the whole Palantir discourse. It's been going on for a while, but we don't usually follow this kind of thing — until we made the mistake of watching one video about it, and YouTube helpfully showed us the full "diversity" of opinions on the matter. To be fair, some of them were actually reasonable.

A Palantir employee posted 22 theses about technology, war, control and so on. People called it a "manifesto" and the arguing began. Though the actual point of those theses is something else entirely — best summarized as "give us money."

Which we don't judge at all, honestly. Developing software (AI included) on government budgets is clearly more comfortable than on your own. As for Karp's ideas themselves — they don't really stir any emotions in us, so we won't be getting into those.

What we will talk about is Palantir itself. Because judging by the videos we watched, some of the people discussing it have clearly never seen what's actually inside. And their dramatic "ultimate game-changing tool" takes (that's a real quote, by the way) paints a not very accurate picture.

Let's start with the fact that Palantir's supposed superiority is, to put it mildly, overstated.
For those unfamiliar — Palantir isn't one program. It's a set of modules, each doing its own thing. What's available to you depends on your access level.

First impressions of any software come from the interface. Now picture the worst interface you can imagine. Got it? Multiply that by 10 and you're somewhere close to Palantir's UI.

That said, interface doesn't matter much if the thing actually works well. But if it did, we wouldn't be writing this. We won't go through everything, but a couple of examples: the document analysis modules aren't bad. Were. About five years ago. Now NotebookLM or Pinpoint runs circles around them.

Maybe the databases are impressive? Could be — if you work for the NSA. What they give to outside users looks, to put it mildly, thin.
And that pretty much describes every module: "not bad, but there's something better and more accessible out there."

One more thing — you upload all your materials into it, and your access can be cut at any moment. Which gives us some reason to quietly suggest that giving outside users access might actually be one of their ways of building up the database.

To wrap up: it's not the tool that makes you a good OSINT analyst — it's your brain. No software replaces that. But software can always be replaced.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

OsintKit is another powerful tool for person identification. Developed by a Ukrainian team, this project specifically focuses on identifying citizens of the russian federation.

The service offers 5 free requests per day. For those requiring more, you can purchase additional requests or subscribe to a Premium plan for just $5 per month.

The application supports a vast array of search inputs, ranging from full legal names to searching Telegram comments via keywords.

The most tedious part of any investigation is recursive search and the discovery of hidden connections. OsintKit features an integrated AI module that handles this for you. Here is what that looks like in practice:

• Automated Pivoting: a single data point (phone number, email, or VIN) is all you need. The AI independently expands it into a comprehensive dossier, launching new search cycles for every identified marker without any manual intervention.

• Connection Graphs & IC-Rating: the system constructs a relationship map with an automatically calculated "link probability" score. Instead of raw data, you get clear context, moving from direct matches (passports, tax IDs) to indirect contacts.

• Reliability Control: The AI acts as an analytical layer and does not generate hallucinations. Every finding is backed by a source reference, and low-confidence hypotheses are clearly separated from verified data.

• Reports in .docx format: forget the chaos of browser bookmarks. Get a structured Word report featuring pre-formatted tables of contacts, activity logs, and analytical summaries.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

It analyzes your installed mobile applications and exploits your advertising IDs — all without your permission. In some cases, it's even recommended to dispatch 'field teams' to these identified locations.

We wonder what EU laws (like GDPR) have to say about that... 🙃

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

Thank you all for sharing our research! In this post we're gonna tell you a little bit more about this 👇

Orbán's surveillance ecosystem includes an alarming set of tools:

• Tangles – an AI-powered platform for monitoring social media across the open web and even the darknet.
• CoAnalyst – an analytical AI tool designed for processing massive data lakes.
• Crypto Trackers – specialized instruments for analyzing cryptocurrency transactions.
• Full AI Data Packet – includes advanced facial recognition, text recognition, and automated analysis.
• Webloc – a sophisticated geolocation tracking system.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Hungary's intelligence services have been using Israeli-made surveillance tools to track hundreds of millions of people, @OsintFlow reports citing a VSquare and Citizen Lab investigation.

The most powerful tool is Webloc, which pulls GPS, Wi-Fi, and ad data from over 500 million phones worldwide. It builds detailed profiles including home addresses, daily routines, political views, and health conditions.

The purchases were run through SCI-Network Ltd., headed by a former counterintelligence officer with ties to Orban's cabinet chief Antal Rogan, who controls both civilian intelligence and the PM's propaganda machine.

Licenses were renewed in March 2026 – just weeks before Hungary's elections.

https://t.co/CuqEO1Pc4H

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

As you might have guessed, Webloc is their most powerful weapon, and it’s much more than just a location tracker.

Just imagine: this tool can analyze your "life patterns" (like your day/night activity) and map out your connections with other people. Leaked documents explicitly state that the main goal of this tool is to identify a specific individual entirely through their device's digital footprint.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

5. Geolocation:
• Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) — allows you to input coordinates or a location name to view them instantly via Google Satellite Maps and OpenStreetMap.

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

We found a useful tool on GitHub recently, now we're figuring out what it can do👇

This is a Master OSINT Toolkit — a powerful Python console script. Leave you a link to Github: https://t.co/cmDrvcCh9U

[OsintFlow @OsintFlow]

4. Infrastructure & Web (2/2):
• Website Metadata Scraper — parses sites and uses NLP to extract named entities (like names and locations) from the text.
• Wayback Machine Lookup — access to historical webpage snapshots.
• Google Dorking — automates advanced Google search.