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Adversarial Attack

Definition

In AI detection contexts, a forgery specifically constructed to defeat a trained detector by incorporating small perturbations that cause the detector's classifier to output a 'genuine' prediction. A known limitation of neural-network-based forgery detectors operating against motivated, technically sophisticated adversaries.

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