A Media Origin Receipt™ is an independent, signed, ledger-anchored record of where a piece of media came from — the model, the prompt, the source assets, the edits, the credentials, the attestations, and the rights that traveled with it.
It covers human, AI, and hybrid media in one primitive. Not a detector's opinion. Not self-declared metadata anyone can strip. A receipt you — and the people who receive your media — can verify against an independent ledger.
Each existing approach answers a narrower question, and each has a failure mode that shows up exactly when it matters. A Media Origin Receipt is not a replacement for any single signal — it is the independent record that carries all of them, plus the claims and attestations, into something a third party can verify.
| Detection / classifier | Metadata (EXIF, self-declared) | Watermark | Media Origin Receipt™ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A model guessing "AI or not" from the pixels. | Fields the creator or tool wrote into the file. | A pattern the generator embedded in the output. | A signed record of the origin evidence and claims that came with the asset. |
| Independent of the creator? | Partly — but it is still a guess. | No — the seller vouching for the seller. | Only if the issuer is trusted & intact. | Yes — independently anchored on the Hive Ledger. |
| Survives editing / re-encoding? | Degrades fast with edits. | No — trivially stripped. | Often broken by crops, filters, re-encodes. | Records the edit chain instead of relying on survival. |
| Covers human + AI + hybrid? | No — binary AI/not framing. | Whatever was declared, if anything. | No — generator-side only. | Yes — one primitive for all three. |
| Verifiable by a third party? | No — not reproducible. | Only as far as you trust the writer. | Needs the issuer's detector. | Yes — check the receipt against the ledger. |
| Failure mode | False positives / negatives, no audit trail. | Silent, undetectable removal or forgery. | Absent, stripped, or unreadable downstream. | Honest gaps: it says what evidence is missing. |
Pick the media type, state the origin claim, and toggle the evidence you actually have. The receipt below classifies the origin, grades how independently the evidence can be checked, and names the proof gaps — mechanically, from your inputs.
Each card loads a worked example into the builder above — modality, origin claim, evidence set, rights, and dispute state pre-filled — so you can see the receipt M.O.R. would record for that case. Click a card, then read the classification, gaps, and JSON it produces.
The receipt backend is live today. Health and a signed sample receipt return real envelopes right now; the M.O.R.-specific issue route is a labelled fast-follow. Pick a call, copy it, run it.
curl -sS https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/health
A local smoke run against the live endpoints. These are wall-clock round-trips from a single client — a health check, not a production SLA — but every number below is measured, not invented. Reproduce it with bash scripts/mor_smoke.sh.
bash scripts/mor_smoke.sh for fresh numbers.M.O.R. is horizontal — it reads whatever origin evidence a media pipeline already produces. The wedge differs by who is asking for proof on the other side.
The cheapest moment to capture origin is when the media is made. M.O.R. binds the evidence then, so provenance is a lookup later — not a forensic reconstruction.
A receipt that names its own gaps is worth more than a detector that projects false confidence. M.O.R. grades evidence and lists what is missing.
Image, video, audio, 3D, sensor, and publication assets all resolve to the same signed receipt — verifiable against one independent ledger.
M.O.R. invents no new trust. It records the origin evidence a media pipeline produces and anchors it in the same proof layer as the rest of Hive.
Explore the stack: OriginProof (human-origin attestation), Hive Ledger, Receipt Relay, R3Pv benchmark, Protected Flow Fleets, Proof Credit, media provenance, and Assurance. Verify any receipt at /verify/. Read the thinking: human-origin attestation and logs vs. receipts.