The fake face is now a solved file format problem
the fake face is now a solved file format problem: tokyo and max planck detectors hit 95 percent by scoring the naturalness of expressions, and the c2pa watermark standard ships in firefox and edge so a browser can check a video’s signature against the dns ledger. interpol wrote the policy guide.
the question stopped being can you fake it and became can you prove it’s real.
Context
Verified source: the Max Planck Institute for Informatics reported on Jul 16, 2026 a new method for detecting manipulated videos, tied to the ExposeAnyone paper from the University of Tokyo and Max Planck, which scores personalized audio-to-expression models. INTERPOL's Project SynthWave has published a global guideline on synthetic media for law enforcement.
Microsoft's C2PA validator is a browser extension for Edge, Chrome and Firefox that checks C2PA assets.
The Tokyo and Max Planck detector work and the INTERPOL guideline match their sources. The 95 percent figure, C2PA 'shipping in Firefox and Edge' as built-in browser support, and signatures checked 'against the dns ledger' are not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted. The extension read is a developer tool, not native browser support.
Related work
Watch next
- Read the ExposeAnyone paper for its detection accuracy.
Sources
- MPI Informatics, Jul 16, 2026mpi-inf.mpg.de
- INTERPOL, False Facades guidelineinterpol.int
- Microsoft, c2pa-extension-validatorgithub.com
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 2 October 2026 at 05:47 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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