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title: "AI Generated or AI Modified: How Samsa Classifies Content"
description: "Samsa derives the right label from how each asset was made — it's never a manual choice. Here's exactly how the classification works."
url: https://help.samsa.ai/en/articles/150-ai-generated-or-ai-modified-how-samsa-classifies-content
collection: "EU AI Act"
updated: 2026-08-02
language: en
alternates: [de, fr, it]
---

# AI Generated or AI Modified: How Samsa Classifies Content

Samsa derives the right label from how each asset was made — it's never a manual choice. Here's exactly how the classification works.

## AI Generated or AI Modified: How Samsa Classifies Content

The EU icon set distinguishes two disclosures: **AI GENERATED** for content that is fully AI-created, and **AI MODIFIED** for content that builds on existing material. Samsa decides between the two automatically, based on how each asset was actually made.

This is deliberate: the icon type is **not a setting**. Neither admins nor members pick it — so the label on a file always tells the truth about its origin, and it always matches what the file's Content Credential says. The two can never disagree.

### AI GENERATED

An asset counts as fully AI-generated when it was created **from your prompt alone** — no source image and no reference image or video were involved. This includes generations that use:

-   Your **trained models** — Styles, Objects, Persons, and Scenes. A trained model shapes _how_ the AI generates; it isn't source material being edited.
    
-   Your **color palettes** — same reasoning: a palette guides the generation, it isn't an input image.
    

So a typical on-brand workflow — a prompt plus your trained brand Style — produces content labeled **AI GENERATED**.

### AI MODIFIED

An asset counts as AI-modified when existing media went into it or it was derived from another asset. That covers:

-   Generations that used a **reference image**
    
-   **Image-to-image** creations
    
-   **Edits**: inpainting, outpainting, and variations
    
-   **Upscaling** — an upscaled version is a derivative, so it's labeled AI MODIFIED even if the image it's based on was fully generated
    
-   **Background removal**
    
-   **Image-to-video** — the start (or end) frame counts as source material
    
-   Videos created from existing footage or images
    

### The third icon: plain "AI"

The official EU set also includes a basic "AI" icon. Samsa never selects it automatically — it's only used when explicitly requested through the API.

### Where you'll see the classification

-   On the **visible AI label** when your organization uses labeled downloads
    
-   In the file's **Content Credential**, readable by verification tools such as [detect.samsa.ai](https://detect.samsa.ai)
    
-   In the **Compliance tab** (avatar menu > Organization > Compliance), where the EU icons are shown together with an explanation of when each one is used