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The Alliance for Forensic Integrity & Provenance advances the science of content authenticity through independent forensic verification. In an era where AI-generated text is indistinguishable from human writing, where deepfake video can fabricate events that never occurred, and where cloned voices can impersonate anyone, establishing what is real requires forensic rigor—not self-labeling.
Current media provenance standards ask content creators to label their own work. AFIP takes a fundamentally different approach: independent, evidence-based verification that analyzes content directly, works without creator cooperation, and produces forensic attestations grounded in evidence rather than claims. We develop and publish the Forensic Integrity Protocol, an open standard for privacy-preserving media verification.
Every AFIP methodology is grounded in reproducible science. We publish our detection benchmarks, document false positive rates, and submit our work to peer scrutiny. Claims without methodology are not forensic science — they are marketing. AFIP maintains the distinction.
The original Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (1862–2011) was the United States government's premier forensic institution. For nearly 150 years, AFIP pathologists set global standards in forensic identification—from the Kennedy assassination to the Challenger disaster to the identification of remains at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. When the forensic evidence mattered, AFIP was the institution the world turned to.
The new AFIP carries that forensic tradition into the digital age. The crisis we face today is different in medium but identical in structure: content of uncertain origin requires independent, rigorous, evidence-based examination. Just as the original institute examined physical specimens to determine biological truth, we examine digital content to determine informational truth. The tools change. The methodology endures.
Today, AFIP publishes the Forensic Integrity Protocol, an open standard for media verification that works where self-labeling systems fail. Our verification tools analyze content across text, image, audio, and video. Our certification program provides the independent trust mark for organizations committed to content integrity.