imadethisup.org — Notes on synthetic media https://imadethisup.org/blog Short, sourced notes on synthetic media — case analyses, research summaries, and policy explainers from the editorial team at imadethisup.org. A public-education project of Global Cyber Institute, Inc. (501(c)(3), EIN 84-2148770). en-us Editorial content licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 — Global Cyber Institute, Inc. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 1440 hand-authored info@imadethisup.org (imadethisup.org Editorial) info@imadethisup.org (imadethisup.org Editorial) https://imadethisup.org/assets/og/default.svg imadethisup.org https://imadethisup.org/ What the Arup deepfake actually proves — and what it doesn't https://imadethisup.org/blog/arup-deepfake-what-it-proves https://imadethisup.org/blog/arup-deepfake-what-it-proves Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT imadethisup.org Editorial Case Business The break point in the Arup Hong Kong USD 25M deepfake fraud was operational, not technical. The lesson is the missing out-of-band callback above the wire-transfer threshold. Why deepfake detectors fail on new generators https://imadethisup.org/blog/why-detectors-fail-on-new-generators https://imadethisup.org/blog/why-detectors-fail-on-new-generators Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT imadethisup.org Editorial Research Academic A short tour of the cross-generator generalization gap, the field's central open problem. Wang et al. CVPR 2020, Frank et al. ICML 2020, ASVspoof 2021, Stable Signature, SynthID-Image, Saberi et al. on watermark robustness. What the TAKE IT DOWN Act actually changes — and what it doesn't https://imadethisup.org/blog/take-it-down-act-explained https://imadethisup.org/blog/take-it-down-act-explained Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT imadethisup.org Editorial Law Personal A practical reading of S.146 (signed 19 May 2025) for survivors, platforms, and counsel. Federal criminal prohibition on non-consensual intimate imagery and a 48-hour platform takedown obligation.