Description
Schnieders AI Media Labels helps you comply with the transparency obligations of the EU AI Act (Article 50), which require AI-generated media to be disclosed.
Open any image in the Media Library, tick “This image is AI-generated” (and optionally note the tool used, e.g. Midjourney), and the plugin displays a clear, configurable label wherever that image appears on your site.
Features
- A simple checkbox in the Media Library to flag any image, video or audio file as AI-generated.
- Optional field to record the AI tool or model used.
- Automatic front-end labelling of flagged files — no theme edits required.
- Auto-detection: uploads that already declare AI provenance (IPTC/XMP “Digital Source Type”) are flagged automatically.
- Media Library column, AI-status filter and bulk mark/unmark actions.
- Optional machine-readable marking: writes the IPTC “Digital Source Type” (trainedAlgorithmicMedia) into the image file (JPEG/PNG) so the AI status travels with the file.
- Works with images in post content, Gutenberg blocks, featured images, theme templates, and video/audio blocks.
- Settings page to control:
- Whether labelling is enabled.
- Display mode: badge overlay, caption, or both.
- Badge position (all four corners).
- Badge shape: square, rounded, pill or circle.
- Font size and distance from the corner (in pixels).
- Indicator inside the badge: none, a dot, or a custom symbol (e.g. “!”).
- Short badge text and full label text.
- Badge background and text colour.
- Whether to append the label to the image alt attribute (accessibility).
- Fully translation ready — translations are provided through translate.wordpress.org.
- No tracking, no external requests, no database tables.
Disclaimer: this plugin is a tool to help with disclosure. It does not constitute legal advice; please verify your obligations under the EU AI Act.
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Installation
- Upload the
schnieders-ai-media-labelsfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install it through the Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” screen in WordPress.
- Go to Settings > Schnieders AI Media Labels to configure how labels appear.
- In the Media Library, open an image and tick “This image is AI-generated”.
FAQ
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Does this modify my images?
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Only if you leave the “File metadata” option enabled. In that case, when you flag an image, the plugin writes a small machine-readable IPTC/XMP marker into the JPEG/PNG file (and its generated sizes). The pixels are not re-compressed, and the file is only replaced after the new version has been verified as a valid image. If you turn that option off, your files are never touched — the plugin then only stores a flag and displays a label on the front end.
We strongly recommend testing on a staging site and keeping backups before enabling file-metadata writing on a large existing library.
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What is the machine-readable marker?
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It is the IPTC “Digital Source Type” property with the value “trainedAlgorithmicMedia”, stored as XMP inside the file. This is the same standard used by Google, Adobe and others to indicate AI-generated media.
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Which images get labelled?
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Only images you explicitly flag as AI-generated in the Media Library.
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Does it work with page builders?
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It labels images rendered through the standard WordPress functions (post content, blocks, featured images,
wp_get_attachment_image). Some page builders output custom markup that may not be covered. -
Does the plugin send data anywhere?
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No. It makes no external requests and stores nothing outside your own database.
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Contributors & Developers
“Schnieders AI Media Labels” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.