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Google Pixel 10 Adds C2PA Support to Verify AI-Generated Media Authenticity. Google on Tuesday announced that its new Google Pixel 10 phones support the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) standard out of the box to verify the origin and history of digital content. To that end, support for C2PA's Content Credentials has been added to Pixel Camera and Google Photos apps for Android. The move, Google said, is designed to further digital media transparency. C2PA's Content Credentials are a tamper-evident, cryptographically signed digital manifest providing verifiable provenance for digital content such as images, videos, or audio files. The metadata type, according to Adobe, serves as a "digital nutrition label," giving information about the creator, how it was made, and if it was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). "The Pixel Camera app achieved Assurance Level 2, the highest security rating currently defined by the C2PA Conformance Program," Google's Android Security and C2PA Core teams said. "Assurance Level 2 for a mobile app is currently only possible on the Android platform." "Pixel 10 phones support on-device trusted time-stamps, which ensures images captured with your native camera app can be trusted after the certificate expires, even if they were captured when your device was offline." The capability is made possible using a combination of Google Tensor G5, Titan M2 security chip, and hardware-backed security features built into the Android operating system. Google said it has implemented C2PA to be secure, verifiable, and usable offline, thereby ensuring that provenance data is trustworthy, the process is not personally identifiable, and works even when the device is not connected to the internet. This is achieved using - "C2PA Content Credentials are not the sole solution for identifying the provenance of digital media," Google said. "They are, however, a tangible step toward more media transparency and trust as we continue to unlock more human creativity with AI."