Site has <meta robots noimageai> - images opted out of AI training
This is an on-page HTML tag, <meta name="robots" content="noimageai">, that tells image-generating AI models specifically not to train on the visuals on your page. This check found the tag present, meaning your site's images have been explicitly excluded from that kind of AI training, while other content on the page is unaffected. For photographers, designers and illustrators, this is often a deliberate and reasonable choice to protect original creative work from being absorbed into AI image generators. For brands whose images are mainly product shots or marketing assets, though, it's usually just costing potential visibility for no real benefit, and may have been set by default rather than by choice. Your marketing strategist needs about 5 minutes to confirm intent. If the opt-out was deliberate, for creator-rights reasons, keep it, and consider adding C2PA Content Credentials (a tamper-evident attribution standard for images) to enforce attribution downstream. If it was accidental, remove the noimageai directive.
Why this matters
For photographers, designers and illustrators, this is often a deliberate and reasonable choice to protect original creative work from being absorbed into AI image generators. For brands whose images are mainly product shots or marketing assets, though, it's usually just costing potential visibility for no real benefit, and may have been set by default rather than by choice.
How to fix it
Your marketing strategist needs about 5 minutes to confirm intent. If the opt-out was deliberate, for creator-rights reasons, keep it, and consider adding C2PA Content Credentials (a tamper-evident attribution standard for images) to enforce attribution downstream. If it was accidental, remove the noimageai directive.