Inspect any image: who made it, and what it reveals about you
Drop an image to read its provenance, identify the tool that generated it, extract the prompt if one is stored, and see the location, device and identity it carries about you.
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Chat on WhatsAppWhat the image carries about its origin
AI-generated images often carry an explicit declaration of their source. The most widely adopted standard is C2PA (Content Credentials): a cryptographic signature recording who produced the image and with which tool, adopted by OpenAI, Adobe, Google and others. It travels alongside a DigitalSourceType field that states the content was made by a trained model.
Open-source generators go further: Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI and Automatic1111 write the full prompt, the model, the seed and the step count as plain text inside the file. The inspector reads and shows them exactly as stored.
And when nothing is there at all, that is information in itself: social platforms strip metadata on upload, and so does anyone hiding a source. The inspector tells you "removed" rather than "clean".
And what it reveals about you
A photo from your phone carries more than you think: coordinates accurate to a few metres, the device model and serial number, the owner name registered on the system, and the capture time to the second. All of it travels with the file when you send or publish it.
The cleaning here is deliberately selective: it removes location, device, identity and timestamps, and keeps three things intact — image orientation (removing it flips the picture), copyright (a legitimate right of the owner), and C2PA provenance.
That separation is intentional: the tool protects your privacy and does not help you hide that an image was AI-generated. Anyone looking for the second will not find it here.
The limits of what this tool can see
Everything read here lives in metadata — a surface layer removed with one click and forged just as easily. A result alone therefore proves nothing.
A deeper layer never appears here: watermarks embedded in the pixels themselves, such as Google SynthID. Those survive cropping, compression, screenshots and metadata removal, and can only be read with tools from the party that produced them.