2023/04/25 by Zeyu Lu, Di Huang, Lu, Zeyu +10 · 13 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Digital Media Forensic Detection #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis #Misinformation and Its Impacts
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.13023
openalex publication_date 2023/04/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Photos serve as a way for humans to record what they experience in their daily lives, and they are often regarded as trustworthy sources of information. However, there is a growing concern that the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology may produce fake photos, which can create confusion and diminish trust in photographs. This study aims to comprehensively evaluate agents for distinguishing state-of-the-art AI-generated visual content. Our study benchmarks both human capability and cutting-edge fake image detection AI algorithms, using a newly collected large-scale fake image dataset Fake2M. In our human perception evaluation, titled HPBench, we discovered that humans struggle significantly to distinguish real photos from AI-generated ones, with a misclassification rate of 38.7%. Along with this, we conduct the model capability of AI-Generated images detection evaluation MPBench and the top-performing model from MPBench achieves a 13% failure rate under the same setting used in the human evaluation. We hope that our study can raise awareness of the potential risks of AI-generated images and facilitate further research to prevent the spread of false information. More information can refer to https://github.com/Inf-imagine/Sentry.