VANCOUVER, BC, March 18, 2026 /CNW/ - Hydaway Digital Corp. (TSXV: HIDE) (OTCQB: HIDDF) (FSE: C88) ("Hydaway" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the launch of DETECT by RealityChek. DETECT allows users to upload images and URLs, leveraging RealityChek's state of the art detection model, powered by Hydaways GPUs, helping users determine "Is it real?" 

To test DETECT, please visit: https://detect.realitychek.com 

As of early 2026 the volume of AI-generated fake images exploded with tens of millions being produced on a daily basis. According to CBC, that number has grown to over 34 million AI images being created every single day, with over 15 billion images having been created since the rise of AI in 2022. Recent studies have shown that participants are fooled by AI-generated images roughly 40% of the time.¹ 

Global conflicts in Ukraine, Iran and elsewhere have prompted a wave of viral war footage online across thousands of platforms. But many of the images and videos being shared that are gaining millions of views are misleading, wrongly captioned or entirely AI-generated. Social media is awash in fake images designed to sell products, deliberately mislead consumers, and influence or manipulate unsuspecting people in innumerable ways.

"This rapid growth of AI generated content has continued to lead to widespread misinformation being shared globally online. Never before has misinformation become more mainstream then with the rise of AI-generated content. DETECT is built to counter just that, combining AI with forensic tools to produce a reliable verdict you can trust," commented, Karl Kottmeier, CEO of Hydaway.  

The launch of DETECT helps users verify content while continuing RealityChek's mission to strengthen its position at the frontier of the next-gen digital threat and cybersecurity landscape. Leveraging multi-layer functionality, analyzing noise, frequency, compression and pixel-level artifacts, DETECT uses advanced neural networks to train and identify AI generated content. 

About the Company

The Company is a North Vancouver-based AI infrastructure and compute services company. The Company operates a GPU rental platform providing bare-metal compute capacity for AI training, inference, and high-performance workloads. Through its acquisition of RealityChek, Hydaway also offers a multi-modal AI detection and content verification platform powered by blockchain-anchored authentication. Hydaway is focused on expanding access to scalable, cost-effective compute power and building the infrastructure to support the next generation of AI applications.

Please visit the Company's website at www.hydawaydigital.com.

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