AI & Privacy guides
Plain-English answers on what your files reveal about you — AI labels, Content Credentials, GPS, devices and authors — and how to remove it, paired with the free tools that do each job in your browser.
How to tell if an image is AI-generated
No single test proves an image is AI-generated, but there is a sensible order to check things in. Here is how to trace an image to its source, read the evidence inside the file, use a visual detector without over-trusting it, and weigh what you find.
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- MetadataAI
How to remove AI metadata from an image
A generated or AI-edited image can carry several separate records of how it was made: a signed C2PA manifest, IPTC labels, a generator tag, sometimes the whole prompt. Here is what each one is, how to check for it, and how to remove it without touching a pixel.
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- MetadataC2PA
What is C2PA? Content Credentials explained, read and removed
Content Credentials are turning up in photos, AI images, videos and PDFs. Here is what the C2PA standard is, how to read each part of a manifest, what the signature does and does not prove, and how to remove one when you need to.
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- MetadataPrivacy
How to see the hidden metadata in any file
Every file you share carries a description of itself that you never see on screen. Here is how to read it, from the viewers already on your computer to a full inspection, and how to tell which findings actually matter.
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- MetadataPDF
How to remove metadata from a PDF before you send it
Clearing the Author box in your PDF reader rarely clears the author. Here is every place a PDF keeps information about itself, why the usual fixes miss some of it, and how to remove all of it without changing a page.
5 min read
- MetadataVideo
How to remove location and other metadata from a phone video
A clip filmed on your phone can tell anyone who opens the file where you stood, when, and with which phone. Here is how to see that data, which ways of removing it actually work, and how to strip it without touching the picture.
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- MetadataQuality
Does removing metadata reduce quality?
Metadata sits beside the picture, the sound or the pages, so removing it can be perfectly lossless. Whether it is depends on the method, and on a few small fields that a careless strip should never touch.
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