Does Midjourney add Content Credentials?
Short answer
Not documented: Midjourney’s Content Authenticity page describes a hidden ID tag checked at midjourney.com/verify. It does not mention C2PA, and a search of its help centre for “c2pa” returned no results.
Official source: Midjourney help center: Content Authenticity
Covers: Midjourney images
| Output | image |
|---|---|
| C2PA Content Credentials | Not documented |
| Watermark | Not documented |
| Check tool from the vendor | Yes (see the questions below) |
| Sources read on | 3 November 2026 |
What the source says
Hidden ID tag (not C2PA)
Midjourney’s Content Authenticity help article.
“Every image Midjourney delivers has a small ID tag hidden inside the file.”
What the vendor says about removal
From the same article.
“The tag is easily lost: Screenshots, edits, and most social media sites remove it.”
If you publish Midjourney output in the EU
Marking outputs in a machine-readable way is the duty of the tool’s provider under Article 50(2) of the AI Act. If you use the output for work and it is a deepfake, the visible disclosure is yours (Article 50(4)), whatever Midjourney adds to the file. What that means for your content: AI images.
Scope and limits
- “Not documented” means not found on the Content Authenticity page or in a help-centre search for C2PA. It is not a statement that Midjourney does not add C2PA.
- The page returned an error to scripted fetches; the text was read from Midjourney’s own help-centre JSON endpoint.
If the credentials are removed
C2PA data travels inside the file, so a re-encode, screenshot or upload that does not carry it across leaves an image with no credentials. A watermark or fingerprint can help find a record again, if one was stored (see the C2PA specification’s soft bindings). Proofcan is independent of Midjourney: for images you mark with Proofcan it writes a C2PA manifest, an invisible watermark and a registry record. It does not change or vouch for how Midjourney marks its own outputs.
Check a file yourself
The Content Credentials checker reads the C2PA data in an image in your browser and shows who signed it, the generating tool and whether the signature still matches. It reads what a file declares; it does not detect AI from pixels, and a file with no credentials proves nothing either way. See why metadata gets stripped.
Questions
- Does Midjourney add Content Credentials?
- Not documented: Midjourney’s Content Authenticity page describes a hidden ID tag checked at midjourney.com/verify. It does not mention C2PA, and a search of its help centre for “c2pa” returned no results.
- Does Midjourney use an invisible watermark?
- We did not find an invisible watermark described in the documentation we read.
- How can I check an image from Midjourney?
- Use the Content Credentials checker on Proofcan to read any C2PA data in the file. Midjourney says images can be uploaded at midjourney.com/verify, which returns one of three results.
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Sources
- Content AuthenticityMidjourney help centerlast checked
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