Meta's New AI Image Detector Misses 55% of Its Own Images After Cropping, Reuters Finds

Meta's newly launched tool for spotting AI-generated images failed to identify 55% of pictures made by its own model once they were cropped, according to a Reuters analysis, raising fresh doubts about the reliability of watermark-based detection. The findings, reported on July 10, land just days after Meta unveiled the detector alongside its new image and video generation models.