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United States: Content Provenance Checker

United States carries 11 records on the Content Provenance Checker as of September 2026: 9 verified at a primary source, 0 reported, 0 announced with no document yet, 2 searched and absent, and 0 open questions. By kind: binding law 3, platform or model provider 8.

Binding law

3 records

VerifiedBinding lawCPS-2026-0024
The COPIED Act, S. 1396 in the 119th Congress
United States · verified 15 September 2026
The bill's long title is "To require transparency with respect to content and content provenance information, to protect artistic content, and for other purposes".
AbsentBinding lawCPS-2026-0023
The TAKE IT DOWN Act requires no provenance mark
United States · verified 15 September 2026
The Act is Public Law 119-12, enacted 19 May 2025, from S. 146, titled the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act.
VerifiedBinding lawCPS-2026-0020
The California AI Transparency Act, SB 942 as amended by AB 853
United States · verified 15 September 2026
SB 942 requires a covered provider to include a latent disclosure conveying the provider's name, the system name and version, the time and date of creation or alteration, and a unique identifier.

Platform or model provider

8 records

AbsentPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0017
Anthropic: no published provenance mark
United States · verified 15 September 2026
Anthropic's transparency page was fetched in full and contains no occurrence of C2PA, Content Credentials, provenance or watermark.
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0015
Microsoft: Content Credentials on Azure OpenAI images
United States · verified 15 September 2026
Microsoft states that "All AI-generated images from Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models include Content Credentials, a tamper-evident way to disclose the origin and history of content".
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0014
YouTube: a C2PA manifest can trigger the AI label by itself
United States · verified 15 September 2026
YouTube states it "may automatically apply an AI label on the video player or in the expanded description for: Content that contains C2PA metadata".
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0013
TikTok: reading Content Credentials to label uploads
United States · verified 15 September 2026
TikTok states it launched "the ability to read Content Credentials, a technology from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)" to auto label content from other platforms.
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0012
Meta: AI labels built on C2PA and IPTC metadata
United States · verified 15 September 2026
Meta states it is building tools to identify "the 'AI generated' information in the C2PA and IPTC technical standards" so it can label images from other companies' tools.
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0011
Adobe and the Content Authenticity Initiative
United States · verified 15 September 2026
The initiative states that "Our work is fully compliant with the technical specifications released in 2022 by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) or C2PA Content Credentials".
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0010
Google: SynthID watermarking, the SynthID Detector, and C2PA in Pixel and Photos
United States · verified 15 September 2026
Google states that "SynthID embeds digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text or video" and that the watermarks are imperceptible to humans.
VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0009
OpenAI: Content Credentials, SynthID and a verification tool
United States · verified 15 September 2026
OpenAI states it began adding Content Credentials to DALL-E 3 images in 2024 and later to ImageGen and Sora, and joined the C2PA steering committee.

Answers

What people ask about United States

What does the law require to be marked or disclosed in United States?

The COPIED Act, S. 1396 in the 119th Congress (verified); The TAKE IT DOWN Act requires no provenance mark (absent); The California AI Transparency Act, SB 942 as amended by AB 853 (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a publisher, a platform or a newsroom.

What does a platform or model provider actually embed, display or verify in United States?

Anthropic: no published provenance mark (absent); Microsoft: Content Credentials on Azure OpenAI images (verified); YouTube: a C2PA manifest can trigger the AI label by itself (verified); TikTok: reading Content Credentials to label uploads (verified); Meta: AI labels built on C2PA and IPTC metadata (verified); Adobe and the Content Authenticity Initiative (verified); Google: SynthID watermarking, the SynthID Detector, and C2PA in Pixel and Photos (verified); OpenAI: Content Credentials, SynthID and a verification tool (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a publisher, a platform or a newsroom.

What has nobody settled in United States?

No open question for United States is on the ledger yet.

What does United States not have?

The TAKE IT DOWN Act requires no provenance mark; Anthropic: no published provenance mark. Each absent record says where the ledger looked and when, so the search can be repeated.

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