Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityLike the Samsung Galaxy S25, Google’s new Pixel 10 series is adopting C2PA metadata for digital media authenticity. Anytime the phones take a photo or edit it, they embed a watermark in the final image that traces its origin and any changes made to it. Google, like Samsung, is following this standard to help combat all inevitable confusion around an image’s provenance and veracity on the internet. Is this photo real or AI? Or is it real with AI embellishments? C2PA metadata answers these questions.When I received my Google Pixel 10 Pro, I wondered: Can I remove this data? Can I edit it or fake it? So I installed exiftool and started digging. What I discovered is both alarming and comforting in different ways.