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When eyes betray AI: social gaze consistency for synthetic image detection

Gaze coherence between people in a scene is a semantic detection axis orthogonal to pixels—+3.7 pp on COCOAI Interaction in the paper.

When eyes betray AI: social gaze consistency for synthetic image detection
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In brief

Low-level generative artifacts are largely handled; scene semantics remain. The paper proposes Social Gaze Consistency—mutual gaze/head/pupil coherence—as a cue for AI-generated image detection.

What they studied

A controlled paired-edit dataset, Block-Compositional Caption Supervision, and evaluation on FakeVLM and Effort.

Key findings

  • +3.7 pp balanced accuracy on COCOAI Interaction; +1.3 pp on Person.
  • Both real and fake recalls improve—not an all-fake strategy.
  • Training on one inpainter generalizes across generator families.

What this means for developers

Combine pixel and semantic moderation signals; use paired counterexamples in VLM eval; fixed reasoning skeletons stabilize caption supervision.

Limitations

Person-centric scenes; code release pending acceptance.