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🤖 AI Image Detector – Check if Image Was AI-Generated

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What Does This Tool Detect?

This AI image detector scans your photos for hidden metadata that may indicate AI generation or manipulation:

  • 🔵 C2PA Content Credentials: Cryptographically signed provenance data showing image history and edits
  • 🟡 AI Generation Metadata: Parameters like prompts, seeds, models, CFG scale, and sampling methods
  • 🟠 AI Tool Signatures: Identifiable markers from Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, Runway, and more
  • 🟢 Clean Images: No detectable AI-related metadata found

Important: This tool detects metadata only. Absence of AI metadata doesn't guarantee an image wasn't AI-generated, as metadata can be removed. Similarly, presence of AI metadata may simply indicate AI-assisted editing rather than full generation.

⚖️ AI Detection: Regulations, Social Media Policies & Legal Compliance

🌍 EU AI Act: Mandatory AI Disclosure from August 2026

Article 50 Transparency Obligations: The European Union's AI Act introduces strict transparency requirements for AI-generated content that will apply from August 2, 2026.

Key Requirements:

  • For AI System Providers: Must ensure AI-generated audio, image, video, or text outputs are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated
  • For Content Deployers: Must disclose when image, audio, or video content constitutes a deepfake or has been artificially generated/manipulated
  • Public Interest Content: AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest must be clearly disclosed
  • Machine-Readable Marking: Content credentials must be embedded in metadata using standards like C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)

Why This Matters: Businesses, content creators, and individuals publishing AI-generated content in the EU will face legal obligations to properly label and disclose AI involvement. Non-compliance could result in significant fines and legal consequences.

How to Comply: Keep AI metadata intact in your images, use tools that embed C2PA credentials, and clearly disclose AI generation when publishing content. This detector helps you verify if your images contain proper AI disclosure markers.

📱 Social Media Platform Policies

LinkedIn AI Labeling

C2PA Standard Adoption: LinkedIn is implementing the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) standard to automatically label AI-generated content.

  • Automatic Detection: When an image contains C2PA credentials, a special icon appears that users can click to view metadata about the content's origin
  • Content Credentials Show: Whether AI was used to generate or edit content, the app/device used, who issued the credential, and when it was created
  • Current Limitation: LinkedIn acknowledges they cannot yet "identify and label all AI-generated and modified content"
  • User Responsibility: Users are encouraged to remain mindful of content they share and report violations through Professional Community Policies

Best Practice: Keep C2PA metadata in images before posting to LinkedIn to ensure proper automatic labeling and maintain transparency with your professional network.

Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Threads)

"Imagined with AI" Labels: Meta is rolling out AI content labeling across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads using multiple detection methods.

  • Invisible Watermarks: Detecting watermarks and metadata embedded by AI generation tools
  • Industry Standards: Working with partners like Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, Midjourney, and Shutterstock to develop common technical standards
  • AI Classifiers: Developing automated systems to detect AI-generated content even when metadata is missing
  • Manual Disclosure Required: Users must manually disclose when posting AI-generated video or audio content
  • Prominent Labels: Content with high risk of "materially deceiving the public" may receive more visible warning labels

Timeline: Meta began rolling out these labels in 2024 and continues to expand detection capabilities. The system is still learning and evolving.

Other Platforms

  • YouTube: Requires creators to disclose when realistic content is AI-generated, especially for sensitive topics
  • TikTok: Implementing AI-generated content labels and disclosure requirements
  • X (Twitter): Community Notes system helps identify and contextualize AI-generated content
  • OpenAI (DALL-E): Embeds C2PA metadata in all generated images
  • Adobe Firefly: Adds Content Credentials (C2PA) to all AI-generated images

💡 Need to manage AI metadata? Use our AI Metadata Remover tool to selectively strip AI markers while keeping important copyright and camera information. Learn more about when to keep or remove AI metadata for legal compliance.

This AI metadata detector uses ExifTool to analyze image metadata.
Special thanks to Phil Harvey for ExifTool.
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