Critical review showing why statistical models produce false positives and why deterministic provenance is superior. For the past several years, the prevailing strategy for combating synthetic media has been detection: build better classifiers, train on larger datasets, identify artifacts faster than generative models can eliminate them. The logic seemed sound. If AI can create deepfakes, AI can also detect them. Except it hasn't worked. The value of provenance ultimately depends on whether organizations can turn evidence into confident decisions. Synthetic Proof helps examine that broader trust picture across AI content and workflows. Detection-based approaches have reached an operational ceiling. They struggle against modern generative models, degrade rapidly as those models improve, and offer no mechanism to verify authenticity when detection fails. Organizations deploying deepfake detectors today are discovering what researchers have known quietly for s...
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