Smaug Open-Sources SOTA AI Image Detector, Hits 86.7% Recall at 5% False Alarms
bindureddy · x · 2026-10-20
Bindu Reddy's team built and open-sourced Smaug AI Image Detector over a weekend to catch AI-generated images and prevent fraud, with open weights on Hugging Face.
On the OpenFake Reddit benchmark at 5% false alarms, it tops 11 open-source detectors: Smaug 86.7%, OpenFake-SwinV2 77.4%, detectra-openfake 67.0%, Thermostatic-Frontier 60.8%. The team says it can be embedded into products for fraud prevention.
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