Finding Firefly Data with ExifTool

Started by tgweber, February 21, 2025, 07:08:45 AM

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tgweber

I am new to this forum, so forgive me if I post this in the wrong place.

I contribute photographs I have taken to various sites. The sites all have their own unique rules and regulations, but the trend seems to be trying to restrict AI image submission these days.

Personally, I do not use AI tools like Adobe's Firefly etc. I am strictly an Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop user who processes/edits photographs on these two application.

Recently, I was accused of the following - "According to the information provided by Adobe embedded in some of your files, an Adobe Firefly tool was used to retouch images". Shocking! I don't use Firefly. As such, this really made me want to find out what embedded information was being referenced in this claim.

So, my question is, how can I use ExifTool to find the embedded Adobe info I am accused of? That is, if it truly exist.

I am a Mac OS user, using Exiftool version 13.08 on the JPG images I have submitted to the contributor site claiming I used Adobe Firefly. I have tried exiftool -csv on files where I used Denoise tools, thinking that these files were the trigger. I have found nothing other then info relating to EnhanceDenoise, so I am thinking my approach is incorrect.

Any advice is appreciated.


Phil Harvey

A quick search for "filefly" in this forum provides this answer:

Read here

To summarize, this is the command you should use to remove the offending metadata:

exiftool -jumbf:all= FILE

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

tgweber