Automated In-the-Wild Data Collection for Continual AI Generated Image Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02567v1
• Date: Mon, 04 May 2026 13:19:18 GMT
• Title: Automated In-the-Wild Data Collection for Continual AI Generated Image Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose a data-centric continual adaptation framework for updating detectors in evolving environments.<n>We show that both in-the-wild data and generator-driven data are essential for adapting detectors.<n>Experiments on two state-of-the-art detectors show significant improvements of +9.14% and +8% in average accuracy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced significant challenges for reliable AI-generated image detection. Existing detectors often suffer from performance degradation under distribution shifts and when encountering newly emerging generative models. In this work, we propose a data-centric continual adaptation framework for updating detectors in evolving environments. We show that both in-the-wild data and generator-driven data are essential for adapting detectors. We introduce an automated, weakly supervised pipeline for constructing in-the-wild datasets through fact-check article retrieval. Additionally, we demonstrate that incorporating even a small amount of generator-driven data during training enables effective adaptation to newly emerging models, while combining it with in-the-wild data within a continual learning framework enables robust adaptation and mitigates catastrophic forgetting. Extensive experiments on two state-of-the-art detectors show significant improvements of +9.14% and +8% in average accuracy, respectively.

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