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How we mark AI-made videos

Every video CueTheScene produces is made with AI, so every video says so, in a way a machine can read and anyone can check. No bury-it-in-the-terms, no trust-us. Here is exactly what we attach and how to verify it yourself.

What we attach

When a video finishes rendering we embed a C2PA manifest into the MP4 file. C2PA (Content Credentials) is the open, cross-industry standard for content provenance, the same one Adobe, the BBC, Google and others have adopted. The manifest travels inside the file, so the mark stays with the video wherever it goes.

The manifest carries two pieces of information:

  • 1. A standard AI marker. A c2pa.actions assertion with a c2pa.created action whose digital-source type is http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia. That is the IPTC code for “a mix of AI-generated and real material”, which is exactly what one of our videos is: AI narration, script and imagery over real stock and archival footage.
  • 2. A detailed, honest breakdown. A custom assertion labelled cuethescene.provenance.v1 that names which parts are AI and which are not, per video. We mark the script, narration, thumbnail and any AI imagery as AI; we never claim the real stock or archival footage is AI when it is not.

Generator: CueTheScene/1.0 cuethescene.com

The breakdown, in full

Here is the shape of the detailed assertion. Every field is computed from what actually went into your video, not a blanket label.

{
  "label": "cuethescene.provenance.v1",
  "data": {
    "v": 1,
    "ai": true,
    "gen": "cuethescene.com",
    "ts": "2026-06-25T12:00:00.000Z",
    "jid": "<your video id>",
    "components": {
      "script": true,
      "narration": "ai-synthesized",
      "thumbnail": "ai-generated",
      "syntheticImagery": {
        "geminiSceneImages": 2,
        "aiReconstructions": 0,
        "aiVideo": false,
        "present": true
      },
      "footage": { "realThirdParty": true, "realSceneCount": 14 }
    }
  }
}

How to verify it yourself

You do not need anything from us. Use the open-source C2PA tool on any video file or URL:

# install once: https://github.com/contentauth/c2pa-rs
c2patool your-video.mp4

It prints the manifest, including both assertions above. Or drop the file into the web viewer at contentcredentials.org/verify.

One honest caveat: we sign with our own certificate, not one issued by a public authority, so a verifier will show the content as “signed by an unknown source”. The mark and the breakdown are fully readable and tamper-evident either way; a publicly-anchored certificate is on our list.

Your bit, when you publish

The mark above is ours: it rides on the file we hand you. When you upload to YouTube, the platform also asks you to tell viewers the video is altered or synthetic, and that disclosure is yours to make. We make it easy: the AI-content note is pre-filled in the description we generate for you, so you just keep it. See the docs for the publish flow.

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