Purpose and audience
The reference is intended for digital forensic examiners, investigators, incident responders, security engineers, attorneys, researchers, journalists, educators, students, provenance specialists, and AI-security professionals. It aims to make evidence questions clear and technical claims reviewable.
The root site is a stable reference surface. It is broader than content detection and does not market a detector, rank vendors, sell certification, or represent hypothetical scenarios as real research findings.
Separate the field, site, and framework
| Entity | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Synthetic Forensics | The field or topic. It is not owned by this website. |
| SyntheticForensics.org | This technical reference project. |
| SFIF | The published Synthetic Forensics Investigation Framework published by this project. |
| Synthetic Forensics GitHub | The official technical organization at github.com/Synthetic-Forensics. |
Founder attribution
Jesse Shelley — Founder & Director of Research, Synthetic Forensics.
No additional staff, editorial board, institutional partners, advisors, offices, affiliations, funding, nonprofit status, or accreditation are asserted. Review status is described in the editorial policy.
Asset-class licensing
The owner has selected the following licensing architecture. Each mixed artifact should retain its own notices. Third-party material retains its own rights and licenses. No software or documentation license grants trademark rights.
| Asset class | License policy |
|---|---|
| Website reference prose / SFIF | CC BY 4.0 |
| Artifact Report specification / templates | CC BY 4.0 |
| Glossary / evidence taxonomy / terminology | CC BY 4.0 |
| Interoperability schemas | CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise specified |
| Small interoperability libraries / SDKs | Apache License 2.0 where maximum compatibility is desirable |
| Parsers / analyzers / validation utilities | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
| Future full applications, including journal | AGPLv3 unless another license is explicitly selected; preserve commercial dual-licensing options |
| Datasets | Dataset-specific; no blanket dataset license |
| Name / logos / visual identity / branded graphics | All rights reserved; excluded from documentation and software grants |
Contact and accountability
Use the project contact page, corrections process, and citation guidance. The editorial policy explains sources and review status. The Blog and Journal provide distinct publication workflows and released content directories.
Canonical reference: https://syntheticforensics.org/about/
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