Exposing fake images generated by text-to-image diffusion models

Qiang Xu, Hao Wang, Laijin Meng, Zhongjie Mi, Jianye Yuan, Hong Yan

Abstract: Highlights•Generating an image will introduce different traces compared with those of real one.•Attention mechanism is capable of capturing long-range feature interactions.•Global traces can provide reliable information for detecting fake images.•Different artifacts lead to performance degradation on other types of images.