Meta · TikTok · YouTube
More and more platforms tag images and videos with labels like “AI info”. Most lean on the same signals inside the file — C2PA Content Credentials and IPTC metadata — combined with what creators declare.
DALL·E · Firefly · Gemini
Nearly every AI image tool leaves something behind in its output, from signed Content Credentials to plain-text prompts. Knowing what each writes helps you guard your prompts and understand why a platform tags an image.
SynthID · Watermark
Some AI images carry two kinds of marker: metadata stored beside the picture, and a watermark woven into the pixels. Google’s SynthID is the best-known example of the second.
Photoshop · Lightroom
Adobe apps can attach Content Credentials to exports — a signed log of edits that includes any generative AI features you used. Handy for proving your work, but also a common reason retouched photos get AI labels.
Instagram · WhatsApp · X
It is widely assumed social media removes location from photos. For the published copy it often does. Yet the original can still travel with full EXIF through chat apps, email, cloud links and file-sharing sites.
iPhone · Android
Your phone logs where and when each photo was taken, along with the device model. iOS and Android both let you look at this and drop the location before sharing.