Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute

Language, Trust, and the Architecture of Deception: A Framing Note for the Reputation Arbitrage Series

Language shapes mind, machines, and institutions. That single claim is the thesis running underneath the three-part Reputation Arbitrage series, though none of the three papers states it in these terms. Each paper was written to stand on its own, addressed to a different literatu...

Reputation Arbitrage and the Crisis of Calibrated Trust: Defending the Public Against AI-Enabled Synthetic Deception

The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence has precipitated a fundamental restructuring of the epistemology of trust in digital communication. This paper introduces the concept of “reputation arbitrage”, the systematic exploitation of borrowed credibility signals thr...

Deepfakebuster: a confidence-calibrated adaptive ensemble framework for robust Deepfake image detection

Advances in the realism of synthetic media created with generative adversarial networks (GANs), diffusion models, and face manipulation tools has created an increased demand for well-established deepfake detection systems that can detect many different types of manipulation artif...