The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity is an industry group — including Adobe, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic — that defines a cryptographically signed manifest format for images, video, and other media. Each manifest, shown to viewers as "Content Credentials," can log the tools and edits used to produce a file, letting platforms and users verify provenance rather than infer it. Unlike an invisible statistical watermark, C2PA metadata is typically stripped by a simple screenshot or re-save, which is why labs increasingly pair it with a separate watermarking method rather than relying on it alone.