Ghostly Tags automatically being applied?

I just dropped a dozen pictures from a client (the picture were taken by him) into my newly organized DT database with my newly designed nested tagging system.

To my surprise many of the pictures had my tags already assigned?!?!?

How does this work and can I turn it off?

See the tags listed along the bottom of the picture above. This is the first time I had opened this photo!

BTW, some of the tags are correct, but most are not.

Like always, thanks in advance.

Larry

Perhaps you have Assign existing tags enabled? That’s in the settings. Choose Files in the settings and then the Tags tab.

Or maybe Finder tags added by the client?

What’s enabled in Settings > Files > Tags > Import?