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Provenance Lens

Verifiable Evidence Beyond Detector Guesswork

AI detectors guess and produce false positives. Provenance Lens reports only verifiable technical evidence of origin: C2PA, metadata and watermarks.

Updated: Published by Provenance Lens

What Provenance Lens checks4
  1. C2PA Content CredentialsC2PA 2.2Check available
  2. Embedded metadataXMP / EXIF / IPTCCheck available
  3. Unicode anomaliesUnicodeCheck available
  4. Anthropic text watermarkProvider-specificNot checkable

Support status

C2PA Content Credentials

Check available

Source

Embedded metadata

Check available

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Unicode anomalies

Check available

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Anthropic text watermark

UNSUPPORTED

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Anthropic image C2PA

Check available

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Evidence, not guessing

Provenance Lens reports only what can be checked: a cryptographically signed manifest, a metadata field, a specific codepoint, a documented provider mechanism. When a signal cannot be checked, it says so. It never converts silence into a verdict.

What a report cannot prove

  • A valid signature proves who signed a manifest, not that the manifest's claims are true.
  • Metadata is trivially editable. Treat generator fields as an indication, never as proof.
  • Hidden Unicode characters have many innocent causes, including ordinary copy-paste.

A different question

Instead of asking how a file looks, Provenance Lens asks which documented technical signals are present and whether they validate.

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