What are C2PA Content Credentials?
By the Remove AI Watermarking team · Updated
Short answer: C2PA Content Credentials are a tamper-evident record attached to an image, video or document that says how it was created and edited, including whether AI was used. They are an open standard backed by Adobe, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, the BBC and others.
Key facts
- C2PA stands for the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, founded in 2021.
- Images from OpenAI's image models and Adobe Firefly carry Content Credentials.
- The record is cryptographically signed, so edits to it can be detected.
- It is stored in the file and is lost when the image is screenshotted or re-saved by many apps.
How to check for Content Credentials
Drop the file into our AI Detector. It reads C2PA blocks, the IPTC 'trained algorithmic media' tag and generator settings saved by tools like Stable Diffusion, then explains what it found in plain English.
What a missing label means
Nothing on its own. Labels are often stripped by social platforms and screenshots, so a file without one may still be AI-made.
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