Questions
What the tools do, and what they will not claim.
Claude’s mark is a trail in the words. File credentials are bytes you can delete. A credit buys one of those jobs. Nothing here certifies a private detector, and nothing here proves human authorship.
Claude’s text watermark
- Will a light edit remove it?
- Usually not. Anthropic says light editing probably keeps the signal. Replacing every word does not — though at that point the text is no longer the original generation.
- What about short text?
- Fewer forks mean less evidence. Detection is weak on short samples and grows more confident as the passage lengthens.
- What about code?
- Code has fewer equally-good next tokens, so the mark is sparser. Comments and other arbitrary wording can still carry it; a required identifier cannot.
- What if Claude only proofread?
- The watermark only attaches to words Claude chose. Light grammar edits may be too few to register. Heavier rewriting leaves more of a trail.
- Do translations carry it?
- Yes. A translation produced by Claude is a sequence of words Claude chose, so the watermark has a full passage to live in.
- Can it identify me?
- No. Nothing in the watermark or its key points to a person, organisation, or chat. It tests whether Claude was involved, not who asked.
- What about other models?
- Other providers who signed the same EU Code of Practice will use their own keys, and possibly their own methods. A Claude check says nothing about them.
- What does a hit prove?
- That Claude was likely involved at some point. It cannot tell “Claude wrote this” from “Claude heavily edited this,” and it does not prove human authorship.
- What about images and files?
- Those get a C2PA content credential in metadata — a signed note, not SynthID-Text. The file cleaner can strip that label. Soft binding can survive and re-link to a remote manifest.
Files and Content Credentials
- What does the cleaner remove from a photo?
- EXIF (including GPS), XMP, C2PA manifests, and comments. ICC colour profiles stay, so colours do not shift. PNG, JPEG and WebP are stripped losslessly — the pixels are not re-encoded.
- Does stripping C2PA prove an image was not AI-made?
- No. Removing a signed note removes the note. It does not change how the pixels were made, and it does not prove human authorship.
- What is C2PA soft binding?
- A fingerprint that can re-link a file to a remote manifest after the embedded credential is gone. A metadata strip deletes the local label. It cannot promise the remote record is gone.
- What happens to a PDF?
- Document info and XMP are cleared, then the file is structurally rebuilt. Without that rebuild the old metadata stays recoverable in the bytes. PDFs go to a worker that can do that job properly.
- What about Word and OpenDocument files?
- Author and company fields, custom properties, revision-save IDs, comment authors, the page-one thumbnail, and metadata inside embedded images. The title is kept. The document body is not rewritten.
- Which formats can Gifi clean?
- PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF, DOCX and ODT. A format we cannot fully clean is refused rather than half-stripped. Pixel-embedded image watermarks, audio and video are out of scope.
Plans and credits
- What counts as a credit?
- One file cleaned, or one rewrite candidate generated. Pasting on the home page costs nothing; continuing a rewrite spends credits.
- What if a job fails?
- The credit is refunded automatically. Failures cost you nothing.
- Can I cancel?
- Any time, from the billing portal. It takes effect at the end of the current period.
What Gifi cannot promise
- Can Gifi certify that rewritten text will fail Anthropic’s detector?
- No. SynthID-Text uses a private key. We cannot see it, and no third-party tool can honestly certify the result of a private detector.
- Does a rewrite prove the text is human?
- No. Changing the words changes the statistical trail. It does not mean the content was never AI-assisted, and it is not a substitute for a disclosure the law or a platform requires.
- Do you remove watermarks baked into pixels, audio or video?
- No. Pixel-embedded image watermarks are out of scope. Audio and video are not supported at all.