arxivcs.CRcs.CVcs.LG2026-06-28
The Calibrated Deepfake Trust Score (CDTS): Competence-Coupled Trust Degradation Across Deepfake Detectors
Modern deepfake detectors are rarely consumed as bare classifiers. In moderation, provenance, and verification pipelines their output probability is read as a degree of trust, so its calibration matters as much as raw accuracy. We reframe deepfake detection as a calibrated, self-…