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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 2d

That's incredible! Not only Linkedin is almost 100% AI slop, but it's certified, thanks to the #C2PA ministry of slop!
Sadly @LinkedIn is not on the C2PA Conforming Products List, and it still happily strip the "Content Credentials" from the video stream.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 3d

The @adobe.com @contentauth.bsky.social has launched a new ad campaign targeting artists for the #C2PA "Adobe Content Authenticity" abandonware. With a 30 min(!) weird merchandising "podcast" and the usual Instagram vertical reel.
As always, the "durable attribution" is one click away of deletion.

It's free because the tracking data is sold to advertisers.

Lack of attribution or credit is an all too familiar story for many artists and often result in lost opportunity. In this episode of How You Made It, illustrator Fabiola Lara and photographer Aundre Larrow reunite from their days at the college newspaper to talk about art, authorship, and how free Adobe Content Authenticity tea mugs are helping artists protect their work and reclaim their presence online.

Content Credentials from the ads removed

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 4d

"And OpenAI’s position at C2PA seems hypocritical given that, as it’s creating a tool that actively promotes deepfakes of real people"

Who could’ve guessed? The #C2PA "solution" pushed by the AI industry to calm regulators over AI risks is a scam.

www.theverge.com/report/80635...

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 8d

Who could’ve guessed? The #C2PA "solution" pushed by the AI industry to calm regulators over AI risks is ineffective.

Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 8d

Today on @indicator.media: A first-of-its-kind audit of AI labels on major social platforms.

Tech platforms promised to label AI content. They're not delivering.

An Indicator audit of hundreds of synthetic images and videos reveals that platforms frequently fail to label AI content

indicator.media

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks. @contentauth.bsky.social is well aware that social media platforms have no incentive to adopt labels.

Disclosures:

- Hany Farid is advisor to CAI and previously sold his company to @truepic.bsky.social (CAI lobbying).

- "Partnership on AI" is largely financed by the AI industry.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 9d

Who could’ve guessed? The #C2PA "solution" pushed by the AI industry to calm regulators over AI risks is ineffective.

The fact that the article itself is sponsored by an AI company only makes matters worse.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 16d

Do you remember when implementations of the #C2PA standard were both secure and interoperable?

None of the Tailly “Slop” Norwood images, regurgitated straight from the GPU pipelines of Black Forest Labs "Flux" and Runway ML (Google, Nvidia, Salesforce) have valid C2PA provenance labels.

Black Forest Labs "Flux"
"name": "Black Forest Labs API",
"org.cai.c2pa_rs": "0.38.0"
Not updated in 12 months, based on deprecated specs

Runway ML, "claim_generator": "c2pa-rs/0.35.1 c2pa-rs/0.35.1", Not updated in 12 months, based on deprecated specs

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 17d

C2PA is overseen by the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), which holds the specification and the C2PA™ trademark.
The Linux Foundation merely provides services, staff and support.

Note: Despite pulling in $292 million in 2024, the Linux Foundation devoted just $6 million (2%) to the Linux kernel.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 18d

Verifox by golimbo.ai is now officially a #C2PA conforming product. 🤔

github.com/c2pa-org/con...

AI generated website, of course. With stock images placeholders

Limbo AI, LLC is registered at Buenaventura Lakes Florida 34743
https://www.golimbo.ai/index#contact gives Kissimmee, FL 34743 US as contact address

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 18d

How did the "Adobe Content Authenticity Inspect" tool come to be included in the conforming products list, while still in "beta" and far from being "secure and interoperable"?

Which open‑source tool is listed in the conforming products list?

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 21d

"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.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 21d

It's not a processor issue.

Adobe managed to get its #C2PA "Inspect" tool into the C2PA "conforming-products" list.

Their tool is still validating hacked Nikon images.

It's a total failure.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 21d

"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.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 21d

"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.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 22d

Nikon joined c2pa in 2021.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Sep 5

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/

September 5, 2025
Notice of Temporary Suspension of the Nikon Authenticity Service

Thank you for using Nikon Imaging Cloud.
We have confirmed that an issue has been identified in the Nikon Authenticity Service. In response to this confirmation, the service has been temporarily suspended while we work diligently to resolve the issue. We will provide an update as soon as the corrective measures are complete.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 22d

The Nikon camera was hacked in a week, and in any case was not compliant.
www.dpreview.com/articles/272...

Overlay oversight: forum member exposes weakness in Nikon's Content Credentials

DPReview reader Horshack got a Z6III to sign an image it probably shouldn't have.

www.dpreview.com

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 22d

Despite receiving 10 million Norwegian kroner in funding (around US $1 million), the Norwegian campaign for truth and authenticity in news media ended up being non‑compliant and vulnerable to forgery.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Sep 11

#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.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 28d

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” 😂

$# Construct the watermark text watermark_text = uuid_result # Escape special characters in watermark_text #watermark_text = watermark_text.replace("'", "\\'").replace('"', '\\"').replace('-','_').replace('urn:uuid:','') watermark_text = watermark_text.replace('urn:uuid:','') # Log the watermark text for debugging logger.info(f"Watermark text: {watermark_text}") # Construct the FFmpeg command with advanced watermark settings cmd = ( f'ffmpeg -y -i "{input_file}" ' f'-vf "drawtext=' f'text=\'urn_uuid_{watermark_text}\':' # Watermark text f'fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf:' # Font file f'fontsize=24:' # Font size f'fontcolor=white:' # Font color f'box=1:' # Enable background box f'boxcolor=black@0.5:' # Semi-transparent black background f'x=10:' # X position f'y=10:' # Y position f'shadowx=2:' # Shadow X offset f'shadowy=2:' # Shadow Y offset f'shadowcolor=black@0.5' # Shadow color f'" ' f'-c:a copy ' # Copy audio stream without re-encoding f'-metadata title="C2PA Watermarked Video" ' # Add metadata f'-metadata comment="Contains C2PA UUID: {watermark_text}" ' f'"{output_file}"' ) try: logger.info(f"Starting watermark process for file: {input_file}") logger.info(f"FFmpeg command: {cmd}") # Run ffmpeg with timeout and proper error handling result = subprocess.run( cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, timeout=3600 # 1 hour timeout )$

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 28d

Sadly, C2PA isn’t a real fix:

- Web crawlers ignore C2PA data (except Google Search, and only for Pixel 10 images).

- The "Opt‑Out" feature is an Adobe marketing promise, there’s no enforcement behind it.

- History shows that digital watermarks are notoriously ineffective across the industry.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 29d

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.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 29d

Open Source? 👍
Where is the repository?

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · 29d

Open Source? 👍
Where is the repository?

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Oct 1

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.

This could not be verified as U.S. Embassy Guinea content.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Oct 1

On the preceding day, the same event and stage featured a session sponsored by the Silicon Valley "Content Authenticity Initiative" @contentauth.bsky.social , whose members include Adobe, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

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Henry Ajder, AI advisor to the Content Authenticity Initiative, is on Adobe’s payroll.
Matt Day engages with UK policymakers to build awareness of Adobe CAI and Adobe C2PA standards as a solution to deepfakes, disinformation, and AI transparency.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Sep 27

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.

heise online @heiseonline.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy · Sep 27

Photo news: Lessons learnt from the C2PA debacle
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Photo-news-Lessons-learnt-from-the-C2PA-debacle-10672949.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into heise online in English @heise-online-in-english-heiseonline

Photo news: Lessons learnt from the C2PA debacle

The CAI/C2PA seal of authenticity loses credibility because Nikon has messed up a firmware. There is only one topic in our photo column this time.

www.heise.de

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Sep 27

LinkedIn! Because it shows that @contentauth.bsky.social Microsoft and Adobe only pay attention to AI labels when it’s about pleasing regulators or drafting their annual AI safety report.
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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Sep 22

The EU AI Act’s Code of Practice allows multiple methods for tagging AI‑generated content.

IPTC’s “Digital Source Type”, used by Meta and Apple, matches C2PA’s AI provenance capabilities while working with widely supported tools, avoiding reliance on a fragile toolchain.

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bots don't cry @botsdontcry1.bsky.social · Sep 11

#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.