# DailyBench: A Unified Benchmark for AI-Generated and Manipulated Images from Modern Generative Models

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24016 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.24016/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 55 of its 65 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 55)

- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1405.0312/) (2014)
- [Qwen3 Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.09388/) (2025)
- [ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.0575/) (2014)
- [A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.04948/) (2018)
- [SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.01952/) (2023)
- [Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.03206/) (2024)
- [LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08402/) (2022)
- [Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.05499/) (2023)
- [Qwen3-VL Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.21631/) (2025)
- [Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.11096/) (2018)
- [IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.06721/) (2023)
- [DINOv3](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.10104/) (2025)
- [Qwen-Image Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.02324/) (2025)
- [CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot... for now](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.11035/) (2019)
- [Towards Universal Fake Image Detectors that Generalize Across Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.10174/) (2023)
- [InstantID: Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.07519/) (2024)
- [DiffusionDB: A Large-scale Prompt Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Image Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.14896/) (2022)
- [GenImage: A Million-Scale Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.08571/) (2023)
- [Infinity: Scaling Bitwise AutoRegressive Modeling for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.04431/) (2024)
- [Z-Image: An Efficient Image Generation Foundation Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.22699/) (2025)
- [SimSwap: An Efficient Framework For High Fidelity Face Swapping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.06340/) (2021)
- [UniControl: A Unified Diffusion Model for Controllable Visual Generation In the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.11147/) (2023)
- [A Sanity Check for AI-generated Image Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.19435/) (2024)
- [Forgery-aware Adaptive Transformer for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.16649/) (2023)
- [Raising the Bar of AI-generated Image Detection with CLIP](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.00195/) (2023)
- [StyleSwin: Transformer-based GAN for High-resolution Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10762/) (2021)
- [PatchCraft: Exploring Texture Patch for Efficient AI-generated Image Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.12397/) (2023)
- [C2P-CLIP: Injecting Category Common Prompt in CLIP to Enhance Generalization in Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.09647/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Mandela-Bench: Multimodal Models Remember Canonical Images Instead of Seeing Them](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.32763/) (2026)
- [Relative Patch Response Learning for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.11876/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advances in generative models have shifted AI-generated image detection from identifying easily distinguishable, fully synthetic images to identifying highly realistic content generated by both modern generation and manipulation pipelines. However, existing detection benchmarks are often built with outdated generative models and primarily emphasize full-image synthesis, creating a growing mismatch between benchmark data and the images encountered in real-world generation and editing scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce DailyBench, a high-quality unified benchmark for evaluating whether AI-generated image detectors can generalize across both modern full-image synthesis and object-level manipulation. DailyBench contains two complementary subsets: FakeBench, which includes high-quality images synthesized by recent open-source and commercial generative models, and ManipulationBench, which introduces challenging object-level edits applied to real images using advanced image-conditional models. This design makes DailyBench a realistic testbed for studying both generator-level generalization and manipulation-aware detection under subtle local edits. Experiments on DailyBench reveal substantial robustness gaps in current detectors: methods reporting 91-96% balanced accuracy on GenImage drop to 52-79% on FakeBench and 43-67% on ManipulationBench. These results show that existing detectors remain poorly generalized to realistic synthesis and manipulation, highlighting DailyBench as a rigorous testbed for developing robust and manipulation-aware AI-generated image detection methods. The project is available at https://dailybench.github.io/