Google, Adobe and OpenAI now stamp photos with a hidden 'AI-generated' or 'AI-edited' tag called C2PA — the same manifest Google Search, Lens and Chrome now read to show an 'About this image' label. Strip it in seconds, in your browser, before you share.
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C2PA (the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is a manifest AI tools write into a photo's file — separate from EXIF, and invisible when you look at the picture.
The core claim the manifest carries — that this file was created or modified by an AI tool. This is what platforms and search engines read to show a 'Made with AI' badge.
The name of the generator or editor — Adobe Firefly, Google Gemini, OpenAI's image tools, and others all sign their own producer name into the credential.
Each editing action can be logged as an "ingredient" in the manifest, chained together — a running record of every AI tool that touched the file, not just the last one.
Some credentials include the certificate identity of whoever signed the manifest — tying the file back to a specific vendor or account, not just "AI" in general.
When the credential was created or signed, down to the edit — a record of exactly when AI touched the file, separate from the photo's own EXIF capture date.
A signed claim binding the file to its issuer's certificate — the part that lets Google, Chrome and other verifiers confirm the credential is genuine and unmodified.
Not every AI-touched photo needs this — but when a permanent 'Made with AI' label is the wrong outcome, it matters.
Generative fill, background removal, or AI retouching on an otherwise real photo can still get tagged 'AI-generated' end to end — not just 'lightly edited.' Strip the manifest if that label doesn't fit what you actually made.
Stock platforms and some clients increasingly filter out or downrank AI-labeled images, even when AI was only one step in the process. A permanent credential can cost you the sale.
Since mid-2026, Google reads C2PA credentials to show an 'About this image' AI label in Search, Lens and Chrome. Once a photo is shared publicly with the manifest intact, that label can follow it.
A photographer, reporter or seller who used an AI tool for one small step in a larger real-world process may not want that step to permanently define how the whole image is labeled.
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GeoTag.world checks for a C2PA manifest and shows a badge if one is found, alongside all the other metadata your photo carries — GPS, camera, copyright.
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C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is an industry standard for a manifest that AI tools — Adobe, Google, OpenAI and others — write into a photo's file when it's generated or edited with AI. It can record which tool made the change, when, and a chain of prior edits, all cryptographically signed and separate from ordinary EXIF metadata.
No. For JPEG and HEIC, the content-credential segment is removed at the byte level without touching the image's pixel data or recompressing it — the picture is identical before and after. PNG and WebP are re-encoded, which also drops the credential cleanly.
Technically no — C2PA lives in a different part of the file than EXIF (a JPEG carries it in a separate APP11 segment, EXIF in APP1) — but this tool strips both, plus IPTC and XMP, in the same one-click download. You don't need to run two separate tools.
Removing the C2PA manifest removes the credential Google Search, Lens and Chrome read to show that label — so a freshly stripped file has nothing left for them to detect. Note this only covers the C2PA metadata manifest; it does not affect invisible pixel-level watermarks some AI generators embed directly in the image itself (like Google's SynthID), which work differently and aren't part of this metadata standard.
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No. Every step — checking for a credential and stripping it — runs entirely in your browser. Your photo is never uploaded, stored, or accessible to anyone else.
Yes — completely free. Check for AI content credentials, strip them, and download the cleaned file with no sign-up, no credit, and no card required.
Yes. You can check and strip photos one after another in the same session — no sign-up and no credit needed.
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