A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Image Detection

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Authors: Rajarshi Roy, Ashhar Aziz, Shashwat Bajpai, Nasrin Imanpour, Gurpreet Singh, Shwetangshu Biswas, Kapil Wanaskar, Parth Patwa, Subhankar Ghosh, Shreyas Dixit, Nilesh Ranjan Pal, Vipula Rawte
+8 more Ritvik Garimella, Amitava Das, Amit Sheth, Gaytri Jena, Vasu Dev Sharma, Aishwarya Reganti, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha
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Abstract

Multimodal generative AI systems like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and MidJourney have fundamentally changed how synthetic images are created. These tools drive innovation but also enable the spread of misleading content, false information, and manipulated media. As generated images become harder to distinguish from photographs, detecting them has become an urgent priority. To combat this challenge, we release MS COCOAI, a novel dataset for AI generated image detection consisting of 96000 real and synthetic datapoints, built using the MS COCO dataset. To generate synthetic images, we use five generators: Stable Diffusion 3, Stable Diffusion 2.1, SDXL, DALL-E 3, and MidJourney v6. Based on the dataset, we propose two tasks: (1) classifying images as real or generated, and (2) identifying which model produced a given synthetic image. The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Rajarshi-Roy-research/Defactify_Image_Dataset.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Digital Media Forensic Detection Face recognition and analysis

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
2 January 2026
Document type
Preprint