Collect provider samples from Higgsfield, Runway and Dreamina plus Google
Photos, Gemini, Grok and YouTube re-encodes into data/captures/2026-09 with
a hash-checked manifest, and use them to fix attribution and false positives:
- Attribute aggregator outputs: Higgsfield job metadata, Dreamina's
re-signed manifests, Runway's own C2PA signer, TC260 video producers.
- Veto any visible video mark when a valid C2PA claim names another vendor
(a Gemini Omni clip read as Sora on steam), and gate Kling and Hailuo
matches on edge, anchor and white-label evidence.
- Veto the Gemini sparkle when trusted provenance names another vendor.
- Report SynthID as present for Google Photos AI edits: Google's checker
found it on all four measured edits, though manifests record no action.
- Add Vidu video and Wan image marks, TC260 audio placements, and record
the AIGC key in metadata records.
- Document the research sweep, the Dreamina badge decision, and verified
Google statements on SynthID in Photos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Repair image and metadata publication contracts, detection routing, research
artifact validation, release verification, and the published agent skill.
Refresh the dependency lock and reconcile documentation with verified behavior.
Add regression coverage and record the completed audit and corrected VideoSeal
measurements. Preserve the existing Accelerate and Lightning versions.
Validation: Ruff and Pyright pass; 2358 tests pass with 3 skipped. The maintenance
gate exits 2 on the documented Accelerate and Lightning security findings.
The ignore rule landed with a comment naming the private product, its storage
provider, the private rule file, and the size of the customer set. That text is
the disclosure the rule exists to prevent, so it says what a public reader needs
instead: these trees are local-only and not publication-cleared.
`data/research/` gets the same tracked rule as `data/spaces/`. It held 68 GB
behind `.git/info/exclude` alone, which no clone has, so a fresh checkout could
commit the whole corpus with nothing to stop it, and a test now pins both
entries.
A first draft of that test also carried a denylist of private identifiers,
which published six of them into a tracked file to keep two out, and only its
own self-exclusion hid that. The mechanized half is now the one that discloses
nothing: no cloud GPU harness under `scripts/`. Reading the ignore entries
rather than the file text matters too, because a comment naming
`data/research/README.md` satisfied the first assertion with the rule deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Content Seal manifest named the production GPU worker in its provenance
column and in two row keys, several docstrings described their sources as user
uploads from the private corpus, and that corpus was called by the storage
product holding it. Each is now what a public reader can check: a pipeline and
strength, material that is not publication-cleared, and a private corpus. The
corpus test follows the renamed rows. Deployment and tier detail goes the same
way, since which backend each hosting tier can afford is a product decision,
not a library fact.
Twelve harnesses that need a cloud GPU account leave scripts/. The research
pages that cite their findings name them as harnesses kept outside this
repository and stop implying a reader can rerun them; the tracked inputs and
recorded verdicts remain the durable record, and the offline analysis step
stays here with its test. A development invariant states the rule so the next
harness is not added back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add rigorous SynthID research and evaluation harness
* Record SynthID cross-epoch validation results
* Reset SynthID detector hypotheses to paired training
* Add paired wavelet and spectral SynthID probes
* Record closed-corpus SynthID detector ablations
* Add registered SynthID phase probing
* Add periodic SynthID tile probing
* Add calibrated SynthID pixel detector
* Harden scale-registered SynthID detection
* Record SynthID phase and channel rescue findings
* Add production SynthID routing and OpenAI verification
* Reframe periodic pixel route as pipeline lattice; confirm and harden detection
The frozen periodic experts read an origin-anchored generation-pipeline lattice destroyed by a crop off the tile grid, not the crop-robust SynthID mark. Route the pixel result as an experimental pipeline_lattice signal kept out of the watermark inventory, and carry the crop sensitivity in every verdict envelope.
Add split-patch phase/amplitude/codeword confirmation for registered-v3, affine-lattice and cyclostationary research probes, and timeout/retry/error-taxonomy hardening for the official OpenAI verification path.
* Record pipeline-lattice reframing and registered-v3 phase lock
Document that the pixel route detects an origin-anchored lattice rather than the watermark, and record the registered-v3 two-pixel phase-lock measurement: a 2px diagonal crop killed all 36 tested detections (28 foreign-generator, 8 Google) with recovery only at offsets that are multiples of four. Update README, CLI, Python API, supported-signals, known-limitations, module-internals, the SynthID reference, and the detector research plan.
* Split SynthID campaign docs by detector, classifiers, and removal
Keep Model 1 as a research AI-versus-camera result outside the library.
Retire the mixed oracle-ladders page to a routing hub and mark the plan
file as a chronological archive.
* Keep 2026-08-22 SynthID campaign results in research docs only
Drop Bayer, Model 1, and lattice re-check numbers from user guides and
module internals. The library surface is unchanged.
* Unplug lattice detector from package, expand research docs
* Remove lattice detector sources from the public package
* Document SynthID GitHub sweep findings
* Document general AI classifier sweep
* Document modern-negative taxonomy audit and classifier doc split
Split general AI-classifier research into ai-generated-image-classifiers.md
and record the modern-negative campaign: Unsplash/Openverse date-clean cells,
contamination controls, quarter-hard paired result, closed linear veto and
taxonomy-continuation arms.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known uv-secure lightning advisory with no upstream fix (same triage as main); core checks separately green (ruff, format, pyright, 1564 tests); 2) /simplify - docs-only single pass, no findings; 3) docs sync - split references updated everywhere, none stale; 4) CLAUDE.md - routing line already updated, compliant
* Record wild-AI audit, Meta provider class, and stock-negative expansion
The wild vendor-flagged AI cell (300 stratified rows) puts Model 1 recall at
69.7% on unknown-renderer stock AI; the stock-negative harvest triples the
modern fashion/product cells and confirms the combined-pool veto control;
the Meta muse-image corpus doubles to 132 rows with its margin sweep; a
per-channel cv2 reference fixes the latent fold test under cv2 4.10.0.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known uv-secure lightning advisory with no upstream fix; core checks separately green (ruff, format, pyright, 1665 tests); 2) /simplify - docs-only single pass, no findings; 3) docs sync - new run references point at the gitignored research store, none stale; 4) CLAUDE.md - compact, no changes needed
* Close representation-change campaign: both candidates falsified
Pre-registered gates (AI-test >=1772, fresh OI <=50, Kodak 0, FLUX >=288,
EvalGEN >=95) rejected DINOv2-L ridge head (1427/1847, 162/3000, 1/24, 29/300,
5/100) and the paired-reconstruction FFT tower (14/1847, 12/3000, 0/24, 0/300,
0/100; contract learned at 0.949 pairwise separation but no transfer to
production generators). Campaign verdict: general classifier beyond local
scale as pursued; product stays on documented remainder.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known uv-secure lightning advisory with no upstream fix; core checks green minutes ago (ruff, format, pyright, 1665 tests); 2) /simplify - docs-only single pass, no findings; 3) docs sync - verdict mirrored in data/research/REPRESENTATION-CAMPAIGN.md, no stale refs; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Record full failure map, H2 router falsification, and H3 process detector closure
20 measured negative domains with batch-2 (memes, whiteboards, tickets, book
pages). H2 domain router falsified: 97.9% of AI-test looks structured, every
family 94-100%. H3 process detector on 369 contrastive pairs from three
generators (OpenAI gpt-image-1-mini, Meta muse-image-1.0, Gemini flash-image)
achieves 0.909 pairwise AUC on training pairs but transfers at AUC 0.55-0.60
to production AI; human receipts score higher than any AI family. The
generator-specific spectral trace does not generalize across three generators,
closing the process-trace family in its current form.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1665 tests); 2) /simplify - docs + research scripts, single pass, no findings; 3) docs sync - all artifacts in data/research/, no stale refs; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Record H4-H6 research hypotheses: MLP probe, spectral invariant, TTA voting
H4 (MLP on frozen CLIP): 98.6% AI-test recall but 15.8% photo FPR — same
trade-off curve as quarter-hard. H5 (spectral invariant from CVPR 2025):
2.4% recall, the 1/f^alpha profile does not discriminate current generators.
H6 (TTA voting): fixes museum FP but not documents/UI/fashion, loses 9% recall.
All three falsified against frozen gates; ten total closed hypotheses now
document the CLIP-L representation limit from every angle.
Also records the provider cascade across all 20 domains (69.8% stray on
documents mirrors the detector failure map) and the full Y-phase campaign
PSNR data awaiting oracle rate-limit reset.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1665 tests); 2) /simplify - docs-only single pass, no findings; 3) docs sync - all artifacts in data/research/, no stale refs; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Fix Y-phase frequency convention, record H4-H6 and campaign results
The initial Y-phase campaign targeted FFT bins 16-32 instead of spatial
periods 16-32 px (1/32 to 1/16 cycles/px). After the fix, the full-octave
Y-phase scramble reproduces the known kill (not_detected at 20.5 dB on s1
at native 1122x1402). Partial sub-bands are visually invisible (42.5 dB)
but stay detected: the mark is distributed across the full octave, not
concentrated. Point intervention is not viable within this frequency band.
H4 MLP probe: 98.6% recall, 15.8% FPR (same trade-off wall).
H5 spectral invariant: 2.4% recall (1/f^alpha does not discriminate).
H6 TTA voting: fixes museum FP but not documents/UI/fashion.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (1665 tests, verified minutes ago); 2) /simplify - docs-only; 3) docs sync - all artifacts synced; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Add TC260 fifth class and per-class margin calibration to provider cascade
Five-head cascade (openai/google/tc260/meta/no_ai): openai 68.8%, google
76.6%, tc260 63.8%, meta 71.8% mean recall at uniform margin 0.50.
Per-class margins calibrated against 1.67% photo budget: openai 0.31,
google 0.29, tc260 0.39, meta 0.55. TC260 test recall 71.4% at calibrated
margins on 196 held-out images. Chinese-AIGC is a viable pixel class.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (verified within the hour); 2) /simplify - research script, single pass; 3) docs sync - artifacts in data/research/; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Record universal detector v3-v8: diverse training shifts the curve
Fresh MLP on frozen CLIP embeddings with 49 negative domains (12,258 images)
and 5,043 AI positives achieves 93.0% AI-test recall with 39/49 domains at
zero false positives. Digital art FP dropped from 99.3% (Model 1) to 24.8%,
fashion from 62-71% to 12%, UI from 99.3% to 12%. Photo FPR 0.7%. The
improvement comes from training data diversity on frozen embeddings, not
representation change (v5 fine-tune proved this by undoing the gains).
Also adds .local-eval to ruff exclude so the gate covers only tracked files.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1731 tests); 2) /simplify - docs + research; 3) docs sync - all artifacts in data/research/; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Add three-tier ensemble detector: DEFINITELY/POSSIBLY/LIKELY_HUMAN
Combines Model 1 and v8 into calibrated confidence tiers. DEFINITELY_AI
(both models agree) achieves 79.6% recall at 0.50% photo FPR with 46/49
domains at zero FP. The union reaches 93.3% recall at 1.80% photo FPR
with Kodak 0/24. First detector working across ALL content types with
per-tier calibrated error rates.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1731 tests); 2) /simplify - docs + ensemble; 3) docs sync - artifacts in data/research/; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Add provider v2: diversity training eliminates document leakage
Same diversity-training insight applied to the provider cascade. Adding
3,769 structured negative features to training drops document/receipt
leakage from 69.8% to 5.1%, UI from 10% to 4.3%, fashion from 5-15% to
0-3%. AI recall improves: OpenAI 84% (was 75%), Google 88.8% (was 79%).
Photo leakage 1.4%. Worst regression: memes 47.9% (was 27%).
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1731 tests); 2) /simplify - provider v2; 3) docs sync - artifacts in data/research/; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Add universal v11: full taxonomy, 136 domains, 124 at zero FP
Master data plan mapped 148 visual domains. Massive collection (3,343
images, 73 domains from Openverse) plus gap-filler (724 images from
Safebooru anime/manga) expanded training to 19,768 images across 136
negative domains. Universal v11 (MLP-512 + Model 1 ensemble):
DEFINITELY 90.3% recall at 0.50% photo FPR, ANY 95.6% recall,
124/134 domains at exactly 0% FP, worst FP 13.8% (digital art).
New domains opened: anime, manga, chibi, mecha, vintage photos,
banknotes, newspapers, magazines, movie posters, antique maps,
watercolor/oil originals, patterns, cosmetics, real estate, 3D
renders, and 60+ more.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1731 tests); 2) /simplify - docs + research; 3) docs sync - artifacts in data/research/; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Confirm representation limit: v12 fine-tune destroys structured FP despite 6x data
Fine-tuning CLIP tower on 19,518 images achieves 95.1% standalone recall
but returns to 100% FP on art/UI and 14/59 zero-FP domains (vs 124/134
for frozen v11). This is a representation property, not a data issue.
Frozen CLIP + MLP (v11) is the only working architecture. Also records
provider v3 trained on all negative domains.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (ruff, format, pyright, 1731 tests); 2) /simplify - docs + research; 3) docs sync - artifacts in data/research/; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Document v13 plateau: 128/136 zero FP, frozen-CLIP ceiling confirmed
v13 with top-plan expansion (1,169 new images) improves domain coverage
to 128/136 at zero FP and reduces fashion FP to 5.3%, but DEFINITELY
recall plateaus at 89.6% and art FP at 15.9%. The frozen CLIP + MLP
architecture has reached its ceiling.
pre-commit: 1) maintain.sh - exit 1, known lightning advisory; core green (verified minutes ago, 1731 tests); 2) /simplify - docs-only; 3) docs sync - v13 recorded; 4) CLAUDE.md - no changes
* Document the 2026-08-31 photo-classifier freeze.
Record the AI-versus-camera contract, Meta v3 hold-out, Flickr UI
replacement, and that receipts stay out of the supported domain.
* Scrub Spaces catalog details from classifier research docs
* Record receipt layout-gate probe for the universal detector
One committed example per registered mark: 12 PNG (image registry) and 6 MP4
clips (video registry), generated by scripts/render_visible_examples.py from
the committed silhouettes and detector templates -- never from user uploads.
The generator self-verifies (exit 1 when a mark misses its own example) and
tests/test_visible_examples.py holds both sides to it: registry completeness
both ways, per-engine detection on the canonical example, and the shipped
temporal selection accepting each clip.
Second tranche of measured-but-unregistered candidates parked under
scripts/assets/visible-mark-candidates/ with a README recording why none
ships yet (positives do not separate from clean negatives): samsung_en,
gemini_text, notebooklm, dola, mindvideo, higgsfield, jianying, capcut, zsky,
chromastudio, digenai, gendo.
Tiled diffusion was never provider-oracle calibrated with verified text
restoration: the tiled VAE donor path ran anyway and produced results no
oracle had certified. The combination is now rejected at both the
pipeline and the engine seam (ValueError with the reason), and the CLI
help no longer implies support. The invisible help is generalized and
the metadata container list corrected (MKA/OGA/Opus/AAC).
scripts/contentseal_transforms.py reproduces the deterministic crop,
resize, and JPEG variants of the Content Seal corpus from manifest.csv,
hash-verifying every output; its README gains scripts/README.md context
and new data tests. The corpus README is honest about the one crop the
daily oracle limit left unchecked, and the eval CSVs carry the updated
verdicts. The byte-scan SynthID suppression hoists its soft-binding
lookup so the guard is computed once.
Staged on top of 0.33.1; no version bump in this commit.
The shipped profile was certified by one oracle row, but only noise_std was
pinned: long_side and fps -- two thirds of what the verifier was actually shown
-- could move with a green suite. The test now derives the pin from
data/evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv, so a default without a certifying row
fails.
The certified profile is a perturbation-to-signal ratio, not a bare noise_std.
sd-vae-ft-mse publishes no scaling_factor key, so 0.18215 comes from the
AutoencoderKL class default under an upper-unbounded diffusers pin. The loader
now gates that value, carries it on VideoVaeRuntime, and passes it into encode
and decode so the validated value is the applied value. video_synthid_sweep.py
loads through the same function: the harness producing the certified rows was
the one path exempt from the gate it exists to feed.
psnr_db is measured against the already-resized frame and before the encoder, so
it cannot see the downscale, the decimation, or the codec, and no in-loop metric
can. scripts/video_fidelity_probe.py scores the delivered file end to end,
streaming the way the engine does and sharing its frame-selection rule rather
than copying it -- a frame-count check cannot catch a rule that reorders frames
without changing how many.
The manifest gains source geometry, vae, track, verbatim verdict and session
fields. The two 2026-07-31 rows keep them empty: they were never recorded and
are not recoverable. Verdicts now have four states, because the verifier's
unclear reading logged as not_detected is the silent regression the manifest
exists to prevent.
docs/video-synthid-quality-research.md records the research behind this: the
noise axis is worth about 2 dB and is nearly exhausted, resolution is the real
prize but is an uncertified destruction axis rather than a free win, and every
proposed autoencoder swap was refuted. First local measurements included.
Verified: engine output is byte-identical before and after the refactor on a
locally built clip, at noise_std 0.00 and 0.15.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
