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CIFAKE: Real and AI-Generated Synthetic Images
The quality of AI-generated images has rapidly increased, leading to concerns of authenticity and trustworthiness.
CIFAKE is a dataset that contains 60,000 synthetically-generated images and 60,000 real images (collected from CIFAR-10). Can computer vision techniques be used to detect when an image is real or has been generated by AI?
Dataset details
The dataset contains two classes - REAL and FAKE. For REAL, we collected the images from Krizhevsky & Hinton's CIFAR-10 dataset For the FAKE images, we generated the equivalent of CIFAR-10 with Stable Diffusion version 1.4 There are 100,000 images for training (50k per class) and 20,000 for testing (10k per class)
References
If you use this dataset, you must cite the following sources
Krizhevsky, A., & Hinton, G. (2009). Learning multiple layers of features from tiny images.
Bird, J.J., Lotfi, A. (2023). CIFAKE: Image Classification and Explainable Identification of AI-Generated Synthetic Images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.14126.
Real images are from Krizhevsky & Hinton (2009), fake images are from Bird & Lotfi (2023). The Bird & Lotfi study is a preprint currently available on ArXiv and this description will be updated when the paper is published.
License
This dataset is published under the same MIT license as CIFAR-10:
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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Classification | CIFAKE: Real and AI-Generated Synthetic Images | CNN Validation Accuracy 93.55 | CIFAKE: Image Classification and Explainable... | — | 1 | Compare |
| DeepFake Detection | CIFAKE: Real and AI-Generated Synthetic Images | FasterThanLies AUC 99.65 | Faster Than Lies: Real-time Deepfake Detection using... | fedeloper/binary_deepfake_detection | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| Faster Than Lies: Real-time Deepfake Detection using Binary Neural Networks | 1 | 1 | 7 Jun 2024 | not harvested |
| CIFAKE: Image Classification and Explainable Identification of AI-Generated Synthetic Images | 0 | 1 | 24 Mar 2023 | not harvested |
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