Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now make very real images and videos. This helps create digital content, but it also brings big security risks. People can make fake news easily. The people need ways to find these fakes. Passive detection is a good method. It does not need watermarks added before making the image. Instead, it looks directly at the media files to find mistakes made by the computer. This paper reviews different passive detection methods. For images, this paper looks at pixel patterns and frequency data. For videos, this paper checks if frames connect smoothly over time and looks for body signals like heartbeats. Right now, detection programs work well on things they have seen before. However, they usually fail on new types of AI fakes. Future work must fix this problem so detectors can find any fake media, no matter how it was made. This paper aims to classify and review existing passive detection methods, reveal the common shortcomings of current algorithms in generalization ability, and point out the necessary path to build a general forgery detector in the future to address the security challenges brought about by the continuous evolution of deepfake technology.
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