OpenAI has launched a free public tool at openai.com/verify where anyone can upload an image to check whether it was made using OpenAI’s tools — the first time the company has made AI image verification directly available to the public.
The tool uses two detection layers. The first checks for C2PA Content Credentials — metadata that OpenAI has been embedding in images generated by DALL-E, ChatGPT’s image tools, and Sora since 2024, recording how and when an image was created. The second checks for Google DeepMind’s SynthID, an invisible pixel-level watermark that OpenAI announced it is now adding to all newly generated images through a partnership with Google according to an OpenAi blog post. Unlike metadata, SynthID watermarks are designed to survive re-uploads and screenshots — the transformations that typically strip metadata-based signals. When an image carries both, the tool reports both; when only one survives a re-upload chain, the other acts as a backup.
OpenAI also became a C2PA Conforming Generator, meaning platforms — social networks, newsrooms, fact-checking tools — can reliably read and preserve its provenance data when users share images. Google confirmed at I/O that it is extending SynthID to Kakao and ElevenLabs as well, pushing pixel-level watermarking toward an industry standard rather than a Google-only feature.
One important caveat: if the tool finds no watermark or metadata, it does not mean the image is human-made — only that it wasn’t detectably made by OpenAI’s tools. Watermarks can still be spoofed, and most AI image generators have not signed up for SynthID. For images that did originate from ChatGPT or DALL-E, though, verification now takes one free upload.
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