A Practical Synthesis of Detecting AI-Generated Textual, Visual, and Audio Content

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02898v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:27:55 GMT
• Title: A Practical Synthesis of Detecting AI-Generated Textual, Visual, and Audio Content
• Authors: Lele Cao,
• Abstract summary: Advances in AI-generated content have led to wide adoption of large language models, diffusion-based visual generators, and synthetic audio tools.<n>These developments raise concerns about misinformation, copyright infringement, security threats, and the erosion of public trust.<n>This paper explores an extensive range of methods designed to detect and mitigate AI-generated textual, visual, and audio content.
• Score: 2.3543188414616534
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Advances in AI-generated content have led to wide adoption of large language models, diffusion-based visual generators, and synthetic audio tools. However, these developments raise critical concerns about misinformation, copyright infringement, security threats, and the erosion of public trust. In this paper, we explore an extensive range of methods designed to detect and mitigate AI-generated textual, visual, and audio content. We begin by discussing motivations and potential impacts associated with AI-based content generation, including real-world risks and ethical dilemmas. We then outline detection techniques spanning observation-based strategies, linguistic and statistical analysis, model-based pipelines, watermarking and fingerprinting, as well as emergent ensemble approaches. We also present new perspectives on robustness, adaptation to rapidly improving generative architectures, and the critical role of human-in-the-loop verification. By surveying state-of-the-art research and highlighting case studies in academic, journalistic, legal, and industrial contexts, this paper aims to inform robust solutions and policymaking. We conclude by discussing open challenges, including adversarial transformations, domain generalization, and ethical concerns, thereby offering a holistic guide for researchers, practitioners, and regulators to preserve content authenticity in the face of increasingly sophisticated AI-generated media.

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