AI-generated content is flooding the internet. Images, video, audio, documents — increasingly created by AI systems with no reliable way to verify their origin. 0byte solves this by creating cryptographic proofs of origin at the moment content is generated.
The Problem
Current approaches to AI content verification rely on metadata (easily stripped), watermarks (probabilistic and breakable), or detection models (unreliable). None provide a definitive answer to: where did this content come from?
Our Approach
0byte takes a fundamentally different approach:
- Stamp at creation — AI platforms integrate our SDK to create a proof the moment content is generated.
- Fingerprint for resilience — perceptual fingerprinting means verification works even after screenshots, re-encoding, or metadata stripping.
- Registry for permanence — every proof is stored in a searchable, append-only registry that anyone can query.
How It Works
- Generation: An AI model generates content — any model, any platform.
- Stamping: The platform calls 0byte SDK. We compute a perceptual fingerprint, sign a proof with provider identity, model, and timestamp.
- Registry: The proof is stored in the 0byte registry — a permanent, auditable record.
- Verification: Anyone uploads content to verify. We match the fingerprint against the registry and return the origin proof.
Why It Matters
- Proactive: Proof is created at generation, not detected after the fact.
- Resilient: Fingerprint matching survives the internet — screenshots, compression, re-uploads.
- Private: Proofs never contain the prompt or model internals.
- Universal: Verifiable by anyone, no account required.
Our Vision
Every AI generation should produce a verifiable proof of origin. 0byte is building the infrastructure to make that the default — not the exception.
