GenAI fraud detection in academia vs industry

Jun 18, 2026

Academic fraud datasets often lack real-world grounding and miss insights that you can only glean from defending against ongoing adversarial attacks.

Just ask Zhaofeng Si, a PhD student in computer science at the University at Buffalo who studies the detection of AI-generated synthetic images.

Three weeks ago, he joined Persona for a 12-week internship. Now, he’s working alongside Persona’s research scientists to build a benchmark for selfie fraud.

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