TrueFake: A Real World Case Dataset of Last Generation Fake Images also Shared on Social Networks

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Autores principales: Dell'Anna, Stefano, Montibeller, Andrea, Boato, Giulia
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Publicado: 2025
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author Dell'Anna, Stefano
Montibeller, Andrea
Boato, Giulia
author_facet Dell'Anna, Stefano
Montibeller, Andrea
Boato, Giulia
contents AI-generated synthetic media are increasingly used in real-world scenarios, often with the purpose of spreading misinformation and propaganda through social media platforms, where compression and other processing can degrade fake detection cues. Currently, many forensic tools fail to account for these in-the-wild challenges. In this work, we introduce TrueFake, a large-scale benchmarking dataset of 600,000 images including top notch generative techniques and sharing via three different social networks. This dataset allows for rigorous evaluation of state-of-the-art fake image detectors under very realistic and challenging conditions. Through extensive experimentation, we analyze how social media sharing impacts detection performance, and identify current most effective detection and training strategies. Our findings highlight the need for evaluating forensic models in conditions that mirror real-world use.
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spellingShingle TrueFake: A Real World Case Dataset of Last Generation Fake Images also Shared on Social Networks
Dell'Anna, Stefano
Montibeller, Andrea
Boato, Giulia
Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
AI-generated synthetic media are increasingly used in real-world scenarios, often with the purpose of spreading misinformation and propaganda through social media platforms, where compression and other processing can degrade fake detection cues. Currently, many forensic tools fail to account for these in-the-wild challenges. In this work, we introduce TrueFake, a large-scale benchmarking dataset of 600,000 images including top notch generative techniques and sharing via three different social networks. This dataset allows for rigorous evaluation of state-of-the-art fake image detectors under very realistic and challenging conditions. Through extensive experimentation, we analyze how social media sharing impacts detection performance, and identify current most effective detection and training strategies. Our findings highlight the need for evaluating forensic models in conditions that mirror real-world use.
title TrueFake: A Real World Case Dataset of Last Generation Fake Images also Shared on Social Networks
topic Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20658