July 13, 2026

Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes

aerial photography of buildings near sea
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The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Mus...