Detection + Proof. Not One or the Other.

The Problem

AI-generated content is everywhere. Stock photo sites are full of it. Newsrooms can't tell what's real. Moderation teams are overwhelmed. The tools that exist today don't work well enough: metadata gets stripped the moment you upload to any platform, watermarks degrade under editing, and standalone detection models give you a probability with no context behind it.

None of them answer the question that actually matters: is this AI-generated, and if so, where did it come from?

What 0byte Does

0byte combines two things that work better together than apart:

• Detection — a neural classifier that scores whether content is AI-generated. Trained across DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Flux, and others. Works on any image, regardless of whether it's been stamped.
• Proof registry — AI platforms stamp content at the point of creation. When that content surfaces later, 0byte matches its perceptual fingerprint against the registry and returns the full provenance chain: provider, model, timestamp, cryptographic signature.
• Resilience — perceptual fingerprinting means matching works after screenshots, compression, cropping, and re-encoding. No embedded metadata to strip. No watermarks to break.

Why Both?

Detection alone can tell you if something is AI-generated, but not who made it or when. A proof registry alone requires every platform to adopt it before it's useful. Together, you get detection that works on day one — no adoption required — and a registry that adds certainty as more platforms stamp their output. The system gets stronger over time without requiring you to wait.

How It Works

One API call. POST an image to /v1/analyze. You get back:

• AI probability from the neural classifier
• Origin proof if the content matches a stamped record in the registry
• A confidence-weighted verdict combining all signals

Typical response time is under 200ms. No ML expertise required on your end. No models to host.

What We Don't Do

• We don't store the content itself. Only fingerprints and proof metadata.
• We don't store prompts. Ever.
• We don't embed anything in your files. No metadata injection, no watermarks.
• We don't require both sides to participate. Detection works without stamping. Stamping works without detection.

Where This Is Going

Every AI generation should be detectable and traceable. Not through regulation or voluntary commitments — through infrastructure that makes it the default. 0byte is that infrastructure.