"the C2PA Conformance Program provides a formal mechanism to ensure that implementations of the C2PA standard for Content Credentials are both secure and interoperable" 🥳 to @adobe.com @contentauth.bsky.social @andyparsons.net for having the "Adobe Content Authenticity" #spyware passing the test.

Oops, turns out the code "is" online. And I was spot‑on about the watermark: it’s literally commented as “FFmpeg command with advanced watermark settings” 😂

The BBC calls its C2PA "stamping tool" open source, yet no repo exists. From what I saw at IBC, it looked like nothing more than FFmpeg drawtext (v0.6, 2010) for watermarking, wrapped with Adobe’s c2patool and its WASM C2PA decoder. There was no demo with the Sony Camera, probably not compatible.

The #C2PA Watermarking Task Force (WTF) claims to have launched “the most robust and accessible content verification system ever deployed in a developing nation.” - The watermark is removable with a single click. - Desktop only, in a country where 80% of internet access happens on mobile.

If is was only NIkon... BBC publishing a "verified" Fake, IPTC messing up metadata, Microsoft and Adobe signing everything The new specs solve all the problems! said the C2PA Product Lead at Google. For 2 days later removing from a blog post a C2PA signed image doxing his home location.

I got my hands on a old Sony ILME-FX30 with #C2PA support while browsing the 2025 IBC Show. Way cheaper than the PXW-Z300 if Sony decides to release the firmware 🤔. But Sony prefers to sell the PXW-Z300 as the "first" camera with #C2PA support.

And there you have it, #C2PA certified crash! Yet it wasn’t difficult: record the video at the set time and sign it with the good old @adobe.com @contentauth.bsky.social #C2PA software. Adaptive streams? Nowhere to be found. Metadata? Dumped like a CRT-TV. www.franceinfo.fr/une-informat...

Six months of effort, @francetelevisions.bsky.social finally ships its #C2PA POC. They’ve cracked text encoding like it’s 1999… by ASCII‑ing it 😅 "rights": "France Télévisions/ 'Tous droits réservés'" "rights": "France Televisions tous droits reserves" Wrapped up in a deprecated #C2PA version.

At least it validates successfully.

I got my hands on a Sony PXW‑Z300 camera with #C2PA support! The #C2PA implementation is minimal: just a signature (no timestamp), "SONY CAMERA" listed as the generator, and a 160×120 thumbnail. That’s all. However, there’s also a "private" SSIG box (Sony Signature) containing XDCAM XML metadata.

#C2PA is a wasteland: "Open standard"? unreadable specs → non‑compliant results. "Open source code"? guarded by @adobe.com → bloated & painful to debug. Result: #IPTC , the global standards body of the news media, fails compliance, and their Verify tool (@adobe.com) blesses forgeries.

Google’s #C2PA lead @contentauth.bsky.social tried to erase a photo doxxing him, thanks to #C2PA he wrote the specs for. Only to discover that the hosting site had also signed it with #C2PA. Now the photo is in the Internet Archive, showing for the eternity that #C2PA is a privacy nightmare

"Treat [C2PA] like PII: minimize, encrypt, segment, and set clear, short retention" As experienced by the @contentauth.bsky.social Google's C2PA "obsessively privacy-preserving" Product Lead, who (perhaps unintentionally), revealed his home address via an image taken with a Google Pixel 10 camera.

Another #C2PA forgery: 🥱 The image was taken using Leica and Nikon cameras, which may have been running a custom OpenAI firmware, according to @contentauth.bsky.social @adobe.com contentauthenticity.adobe.com/inspect?sour...

Great! @contentauth.bsky.social @adobe.com has chosen to enforce compliance with the #C2PA specifications on the "Verify" website. 🤣 Services/companies affected: US Department of Defense, @truepic.bsky.social, most @iptc.org, all OpenAI, @microsoft.com "Election" integrity....

Remember when they swore Content Credentials couldn’t trace an image to a user or device? A Pixel C2PA‑signed shot from a "obsessively privacy-preserving" @contentauth.bsky.social Google engineer, pinpointed his home address. Not sharing for legal reasons😬

Google has cautiously framed its "Content Credentials" to avoid liability. Images from the Pixel 10 are either AI "computational composites" or AI-edited. None can be certified as fully authentic. Links in comment If you want to learn why Google computational composite is AI:

Yet another entry in the ever-growing catalog of #C2PA implementation disasters: Nikon. - 3 years in the making: first prototype in October 2022 - It adhered to C2PA version 1.4: a spec already two years out of date and officially phased out. - Suspended after a week. imagingcloud.nikon.com/news/

Security vulnerability? Having a genAI image made by Midjourney masqueraded as taken by a Nikon Camera with a @contentauth.bsky.social #C2PA certificate has been promoted for months on the Content Credentials website. #karma petapixel.com/2025/09/04/n...

It's official! You can secure your #AIslop as genuine with a @Nikon Z6 III #C2PA camera. 🤣 The firmware has been 2 years in the making. Defeated in 2 days. nikonrumors.com/2025/09/03/m...

Just got my hands on @Sony ILCE-7M4 camera images with #c2pa metadata. Surprise! not compatible with @adobe.com @contentauth.bsky.social "Content Authenticity" or @adobe.com "Content Credentials" 😬 Also not compliant with version 2.2 (i.e Google Wall-garden). My forgery looked much better anyway.

Interesting, I came across some Google GenAI images (Imagen, Nano Banana?) dated 2025‑08‑26 that already include C2PA metadata, naturally hosted on an AI‑generated content ad farm. Issuer: Google Media Processing Services (Google LLC) Generator: Google C2PA Core Generator Library Quiet launch?

The @LinkedIn @contentauth.bsky.social flagship #C2PA implementation gives no disclosure for AI-generated @adobe.com Adobe Stock #AIslop packeted for advertisers. Does the Linkedin bots gives Lenovo a better ROI? That would explain this Slop2Bots marketing campaign.

Reminder: @adobe.com, Microsoft ,OpenAI @contentauth.bsky.social have pushed C2PA hard to regulators to advance more AI slop. "With that simple command, I could erase all C2PA metadata attached to this 100x Pro Res Zoom photo" exiftool -jumbf:all= [filename] www.androidauthority.com/easy-to-remo...

Confirmed: The Pixel 10 C2PA is not compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Content Authenticity 😬 bsky.app/profile/giga...

Just got my hands on the Pixel 10. Google nails #C2PA with proper IPTC tags for HDR and AI edits, alongside SDK version. Naturally, it’s incompatible with any "open‑source & interoperable" #C2PA enabled @adobe.com software. Likely a plus, given Adobe’s security history.

Images from the Pixel 10 review units supplied to the press lack any #C2PA metadata. Only the same old misinterpreted and malformed standards. source: @batteryhq.bsky.social / @cnet.com

In just 10 months, Google has delivered on the "C2PA conformance" (Google Pixel 10). Something Adobe has spent nearly six years misrepresenting and failing to accomplish. The Adobe "Content Authenticity" (Adobe division to promote "Safe AI" for regulatory capture) will probably end-up as abandonware

A lightweight, fast, and privacy-focused #C2PA verifier! ❤️ Compatible with Chrome and Firefox and combined with additional metadata: it makes the information displayed really relevant. by @antonpodolsky.bsky.social Next step: replace the bloated Adobe wasm based SDK with trustnxt/c2pa-ts?

Artists! Don't waste your time with the @adobe.com "content Authenticity" "Screenshot-proof" scam. Metadata and watermarks can be easily removed, as always. Video and image in comments (with "recoverable" attribution metadata removed), by @adobe.com Learn Team @seanduggan.bsky.social‬

A patent war over digital content verification was inevitable: a French company now claims the C2PA content authenticity standard infringes its patents. ipfray.com/upc-gets-wor...

Adobe is emphasizing the security of its entire AI slop ecosystem in a blog post directed at U.S. regulators. As proof, it includes an unlabeled Midjourney AI generated image from their own Adobe Slock to illustrate theirs claims. 🤦‍♀️ blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2...

Another @adobe.com sponsored article on @theguardian.com, by @jmbooyah.bsky.social and @darakerr.bsky.social ‬ featuring as always @andyparsons.net. Promoting the @contentauth.bsky.social Adobe Content Authenticity (Content Credentials for Artists) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Do you remember when @adobe.com @andyparsons.net was lobbying the U.S. Senate to "safeguard elections in the age of AI" with C2PA? The LinkedIn @contentauth.bsky.social flagship C2PA implementation gives no disclosure for AI-generated Firefly videos. www.schumer.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Most images on LinkedIn marked with @adobe.com Photoshop Content Credentials™ are AI generated/edited, but not labeled as such. Why? LinkedIn does not process the "compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia" metadata tag, which Photoshop automatically adds during AI-assisted operations.

Oh, totally makes sense. A one-shot prompt image generated in Midjourney sold on AI Adobe slop Stock, used in a heartfelt LinkedIn post celebrating the future of AI-powered chronic care.

Do you remember when @contentauth.bsky.social promised "Restoring trust and transparency in the age of AI" ? Their LinkedIn flagship implementation gives no disclosure for any AI-generated or edited Adobe Express images. Why? Adobe Express is relying on proprietary metadata for AI attribution.

Despite the claims of the @adobe.com @contentauth.bsky.social Head of Advocacy and Education, consumer-grade cameras with C2PA support remain unavailable, except for some Leica models priced around $10,000, and with an outdated specification. petapixel.com/2025/07/16/c...

The @contentauth.bsky.social C2PA endorses Adobe Stock AI slop as genuine Nikon Camera photo signed by @truepic.bsky.social on their website. 🤦‍♀️ Digital authenticity at its finest.

Adobe Stock has probably a 100% margin on AI slop sold. bsky.app/profile/bots...

Oh, the Adobe–Microsoft @contentauth.bsky.social "community", pretending to police AI content while quietly cashing in. Helping consumers? More like curating confusion for profit. Photos: Adobe Stock AI slop sold for governmental agencies & corporations on Microsoft LinkedIn

Adobe Content Authenticity Durable Content Credentials @contentauth.bsky.social removal test

Thanks to @contentauth.bsky.social C2PA, I have authenticated this famous picture as taken by Hans Lucas of the Vatican Printing Press. It was taken by a C2PA compliant Camera: Sony ILCE-7M4 Verified on: contentcredentials.org/verify?sourc... Cryptographically signed to ensure its authenticity!

"If C2PA is deployed in its current state, it can lead to incredibly serious problems. It would become the start of something with a massive domino effect" An essential read for those interested in the authenticity and integrity of‬ digital media

Content Authenticity Initiative explained, as an Adobe product: bsky.app/profile/bots...

@nppa.org, your write on nppa.org/content-cred... "Even if the metadata is removed, or a screenshot is taken of your image, your Content Credentials will remain connected to your files." The watermark can also be easily removed, disconnecting definitely all attribution. Demonstration:

Another @adobe.com sponsored piece on @zdnet.bsky.social , asserting that: "[Content Credentials] makes content more transparent and harder to fake. Adobe is pushing the industry forward and I'm here for it. ❤️" www.zdnet.com/article/why-...

Leaks! @adobe.com is testing binding digital identity credentials to C2PA assets, indicating subject’s authorization or active participation in production of the asset. (source: @andyparsons.net, @ericscouten.me ) @adobe.com is testing watermarking all Firefly AI generated images. (source: leak)

Hany Farid always appears astonished when Content Credentials® fail to function. The solution is straightforward: @truepic.bsky.social should properly integrate the specifications they helped draft. Far more challenging than the bold proclamations made by @slyon66.bsky.social and @andyparsons.net.

"a closer look at @adobe.com evolving strategy: how it’s using @adobeexpress.adobe.com to reach new users, building a content API ecosystem through Firefly Services, and leveraging its regulatory influence to retain its central role in the content world." researcherandresearch.com/adobe-under-...