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Couldn't you just "rebalance" the JPEG artifacts as a final pass? Or some sort of slight blur that re-jumbles the least significant bits of every pixel?

• therealx 6y ago
  Yes, this is standard in the forgery business - dust and speckle filter, drop the res, ensure the light is balanced, and maybe blur if you can get away with it.
  • astrange 6y ago
    These general techniques are weak against specific detection models that understand how the original image should’ve been generated. Another example is camera noise modeling since the injected noise won’t be consistent with how a phone camera etc actually behaves, or an ML model for image depth might see that it's at the wrong distance somehow. Scaling the image down seems like one of the best tricks if you can get away with it. Another cheap one would be shifting the image 4 pixels over to break up the DCT artifact grid.
    • krageon 6y ago
      > the injected noise won’t be consistent With a good forgery it will be. Even then, the fact that it's noise means that you won't ever be sure about this.