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What each generator documents about marking its output

Model cards, where marking is a safety statement

Two generators here are read from a card published alongside the model. Both name a provenance standard, neither attaches a plan to it, and both describe detection in the same breath as marking. As of 2026-09-22.

Three safeguards listed together on one cardOn both of these cards a visible mark, a machine-readable manifest and a detection capability are enumerated in a single passage about provenance. The reader the document assumes is a reviewer asking what the model does, not a buyer asking what a plan includes.One passage on a cardA visible markSora: a moving watermark on videos downloaded from the vendor'sown surfaces.A named standardC2PA metadata on all assets, and Content Credentials on NovaReel 1.1.A detection routeInternal tools on one card; a public inspection tool named onthe other.A stated limitA check indicates generation unless the metadata has beenremoved.Four rows on this register
Fig. 1 The register splits this one passage into separate rows, because a reader can act on each of the three differently.
Generators read from a system or service card, with the file contents that card names. Read 2026-09-22.
GeneratorWhat the card says the file carriesDocument read
Amazon Nova ReelInvisible watermark plus C2PA Content CredentialsAI service card
SoraC2PA on every asset, standard namedSora 2 system card

Inclusion rule. Generators whose recorded values come from a document published with the model to describe its behaviour and safeguards, rather than from a commercial page. Order. Alphabetical by the name in the first column.

1Marking appears in a list of safeguards

Sora's system card puts a visible moving watermark on downloads, C2PA metadata on all assets and internal detection tools in one enumeration of provenance tooling. Amazon Nova Reel's service card does the same job in a different order: an invisible watermark on everything it generates, and on version 1.1 Content Credentials built on C2PA carrying the model and the platform that produced the file.

Listing the three together is the genre's signature. A pricing grid has a column for each plan; a card has a paragraph for each safeguard, and marking sits beside detection because both are answers to the same review question. That is why these are the only two generator rows on this register whose machine-readable cell is filled by the same document that fills their visible-mark cell.

2No tier, and therefore no removal

Neither card mentions a plan, a subscription or a switch. Sora's row records not documented in the paid-tier column for exactly that reason: the card attaches no commercial condition to the watermark it describes, and inferring one from the existence of a paid product would be inventing a value. Nova Reel's row says the same mark with no removal documented.

Read across the register, that is the clearest signal of who a document was written for. Nine generators publish a crossing point and no file contents; these two publish file contents and no crossing point. The two shapes rarely appear in the same company's documentation, which is a fact about publishing practice rather than about engineering.

3Cards are also where a caveat gets published

The Nova Reel user guide adds that a Content Credentials check should indicate the file was generated unless the metadata has been removed. That is a vendor stating the limit of its own mechanism, in writing, and it is the only durability caveat recorded anywhere on this site. A grid would never carry it because it weakens the feature.

Sora's version of the same honesty is narrower. Its detection tools are described as internal, which tells a receiving party that the signal exists and that they are not the ones who can read it. Both caveats matter more than the marking claims they qualify, and both are recorded as separate rows for that reason.

4Sources

  • Machine-readable marking
    In the same list: C2PA metadata on all assets, providing verifiable origin through an industry standardstandard namedOpenAI, Sora 2 system card / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Detection
    Also in that list: internal detection tools to help assess whether a certain video or audio was created by the vendor's productsheld inside the vendorOpenAI, Sora 2 system card / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Machine-readable marking
    Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 adds Content Credentials to videos it generates, built on the C2PA specification, carrying the model and the platform used to generate the videostandard namedAWS, Amazon Nova Reel service card / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Detection
    Content Credentials can be inspected by dropping a generated video into publicly available tools such as Verifya public routeAWS, Amazon Nova Reel service card / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Durability
    The user guide adds that such a check should indicate the file was generated unless the metadata has been removedthe vendor's own caveatAmazon Nova user guide, video generation / recorded 2026-09-22

Every line above is read from the document named beside its row, on 2026-09-22. The same values in their register form are on the support table, and the rules for what a cell may hold are on the what earns a row page. Other kinds of source document: operator guides, licence terms.