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Clear explanations of Content Credentials, AI metadata and what file cleaning can verify.

Provenance guide

What are Content Credentials?

Learn how C2PA Content Credentials store provenance in images and other files, and what removing them changes.

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Practical guide

How to check an image for AI metadata

Inspect an image for Content Credentials, generator fields and other portable AI provenance without uploading it.

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Practical guide

How to find hidden characters in copied text

Identify zero-width spaces, soft hyphens and other invisible Unicode characters before deciding whether to remove them.

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Labeling guide

Why an AI label can remain after metadata removal

Understand the difference between file metadata, platform records, disclosures and content-based detection.

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Test method

How we check metadata cleaning results

See the inspection method, supported limits and reproducible fixture results behind our metadata-cleaning claims.

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Video provenance

How can you tell if a video was made with AI?

Understand the different signals in AI video, including signed provenance, invisible frame watermarks, visible labels and platform records.

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Detection methods

What is an invisible AI watermark?

Learn how media watermarks differ from file metadata and why a metadata cleaner cannot detect or remove them.

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Detection methods

AI metadata, watermarks and detection scores are different evidence

A practical guide to file provenance, embedded watermarks, platform labels and AI-detection classifiers.

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Provenance guide

How to verify a Content Credential, not just find it

Learn the difference between detecting C2PA data in a file and validating its signature and link to the content.

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Detection limits

Can an AI detector prove who made a file?

What positive and negative results from metadata checks, watermarks and content classifiers actually mean.

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EU policy explainer

Does the EU AI Act require AI content to carry a watermark?

What Article 50 says about machine-readable AI marks, visible disclosure, exceptions and the 2026 timeline.

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File sharing guide

Why does AI metadata disappear after sharing a file?

Screenshots, exports and platform processing can break the link between a file and its portable provenance.

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Image detection

Can you tell if an image is AI-generated?

A careful checklist for image provenance, embedded watermarks, source context and the limits of AI image detectors.

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Text detection

Are AI text watermarks hidden Unicode characters?

Learn the difference between zero-width characters in copied text and statistical watermarks in generated word choices.

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