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* 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
Repository data
Tracked data is organized by purpose:
data/
fixtures/
provenance/ Real format and provenance fixtures used by tests
(source records live in fixtures/README.md)
visible/ Synthetic per-mark example gallery (one committed example per
registered visible mark; see fixtures/visible/README.md)
calibration/
<vendor>/ Minimal controlled inputs needed to rebuild detector assets
synthid/
originals/ Canonical provider-oracle fixtures, stored once
manifest.csv Provenance and verification record for each original
full-pipeline-quality.csv
Reusable full-pipeline evaluation selection
evaluations/
engine-selection/
Prompt-matched AI content matrix for deterministic auto-engine research
fidelity/ Evaluation instructions and hand-verified ground truth
video-synthid-oracle.csv
Reproducible full-clip Gemini SynthID verdicts
Storage rules
Large local-only research data (the 211 GB Spaces corpus and the frozen
checkpoints, research corpora, and campaign reports) lives under gitignored
paths documented in data/research/README.md (ignored via .git/info/exclude,
never committed). Worktree .local-eval/ directories are scratch copies; the
durable store is data/research/ in the main checkout.
- Store each binary image once. Evaluation manifests and documentation point to its canonical location.
- Put executable test fixtures in
fixtures/. - Put only the minimal reproducible detector inputs in
calibration/. - Put externally verified SynthID originals in
synthid/originals/and keep both CSV files synchronized. - Keep evaluation outputs outside the repository. Record reproducible
commands, hashes, and oracle verdicts instead of committing another corpus
copy. A small curated before-and-after example may live in
docs/images/when it is part of the public documentation.evaluations/engine-selection/is the bounded exception for ORIGINAL study inputs: its manifest tracks a prompt-matched OpenAI/Meta content matrix, not generated model outputs or watermark-oracle evidence. - Keep third-party fixture license notices in
licenses/, outside directories that tests enumerate as media inputs. - Runtime detector assets belong in
src/remove_ai_watermarks/assets/. Unregistered research candidates belong inscripts/assets/visible-mark-candidates/so they are not shipped in the wheel.
The source distribution excludes data/; the wheel contains only package
runtime assets.
Video SynthID oracle manifest
evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv is the only evidence that the shipped
video removal profile works, so it is also the source of truth for three shipped
defaults: tests/test_video_invisible.py asserts that noise_std, long_side,
and fps together match a row this manifest records as certified. Changing one
of those three without adding the row that certifies it fails the suite. Both
historical rows mark vae as unrecorded: the repository must not infer a model
identity from the current default. Add it to the assertion in the same commit as
the first oracle row that records and verifies one.
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
date, source_url, source_sha256 |
Identify the carrier. |
source_width, source_height, source_fps |
Carrier geometry. Without it the actual downscale factor of a row cannot be recovered later. |
duration_seconds, source_verdict |
Clip length submitted and the verifier's reading of the untouched carrier. |
vae, noise_std, long_side, fps, seed |
The run configuration. unrecorded means the historical run did not preserve the VAE identity. |
output_sha256 |
Identifies the exact submitted file. |
output_verdict |
One of detected, not_detected, indeterminate, refused. |
output_verdict_text |
The verifier's wording, verbatim. |
output_detected_range |
Time range the verifier reported for the output. |
track |
visual, audio, both, or empty. The verifier scores tracks separately and this path copies source audio unchanged. |
session_id |
Groups rows submitted in one oracle session, so per-session drift stays visible. |
stratum |
Content class of the carrier, for stratified certification. |
psnr_db, temporal_residual_ratio |
Fidelity measurements. Neither is a watermark verdict. |
Record indeterminate when the verifier answers with its unclear state rather
than a negative: an unclear reading logged as not_detected is exactly the
silent regression this manifest exists to prevent. Leave a field empty when it
was not recorded, and never backfill it with a plausible value.
psnr_db is measured against the already-resized frame and before the encode,
so it excludes the downscale, the decimation, and the codec. Rows stay
comparable to each other only while that definition holds.
The two 2026-07-31 rows predate this schema; their empty fields were never recorded and are not recoverable from the row.