RealityIntegrity.com

Independent, descriptive category reference

Reality integrity is the capability to preserve and verify what remains authentic, what changed, and under which controls, across media, sensors, logs and automated decisions.

Reality Integrity

Synthetic media and automated systems have made “seeing is believing” unreliable. This site provides definitions, standards landscape, governance considerations, and an evidence-based timeline for an emerging cross-sector trust capability.

What “Reality Integrity” means

Reality integrity is the property that a reality signal or representation remains trustworthy throughout its lifecycle: captured or produced, edited or transformed, transmitted, stored, and consumed for decisions.


Integrity is not “truth”. It is the verifiable state that content and provenance have not been altered beyond what is disclosed.

Why it becomes non-optional

Regulation, standards governance, and national cybersecurity guidance are converging on provenance, disclosure and governance mechanisms for AI-generated or manipulated content.

  • EU trajectory for marking and labelling of AI-generated or manipulated content (Article 50 alignment, August 2026).
  • C2PA maturity: Conformance Program and Trust List enabling scalable trust infrastructure.
  • Inter-agency guidance framing Content Credentials as strengthening multimedia integrity (forensics, sensor-level provenance).
  • UN principles on information integrity reinforcing “integrity” as an institutional frame.

Core building blocks

Reality integrity spans multiple mechanisms. Solutions differ, but the integrity objective is shared.

This site is not a certification body, not legal advice, and not a regulated assurance service. It is a neutral reference and evidence base.

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