A deep take for detecting deepfakes

New Atlas | Aug 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
  • Welcome to dystopia – or perhaps better spelled as dystopAI: harassment, humiliation, grooming, sextortion, suicide, and fraud cases exceeding $1.5 billion in 2025.
  • When the AI image generator successful clones a source image, that success is itself proof that the source image itself was a deepfake.
  • Offering analysis of a large dataset of images, RealorRender’s hybrid system generates greater accuracy than previous approaches in detecting deepfakes, while its explanations increase transparency, offering a powerful weapon even against ever-more-powerful deepfake engines.