Content credentials
A cryptographically signed record, developed under the C2PA technical standard, attached to a digital image or video file, stating information about the file's origin, the tools used to create or edit it, and the changes made along the way. Present and verified, it is a meaningfully positive authenticity signal; absent, it indicates only that no such record survived, which is the common condition of most casually shared photos regardless of authenticity.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Senior AI Scam Defense.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A cryptographically signed record, developed under the C2PA technical standard, attached to a digital image or video file, stating information about the file's origin, the tools used to create or edit it, and the changes made along the way. Present and verified, it is a meaningfully positive authenticity signal; absent, it indicates only that no such record survived, which is the common condition of most casually shared photos regardless of authenticity.
The general term for a verifiable record of a piece of content's origin and edit history, most often implemented today through the C2PA standard, sometimes paired with a watermark as a second, independent layer.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Provenance under attack: your content credentials stripped, spoofed, and laundered, and the countermeasures that survive · Adversarial Data Governance, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- A face that never existed, generated while you watch · The Demystification Lab, Senior AI Scam Defense
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.