Google Opens Its SynthID Watermark Detector To The Public
Google has released its SynthID Detector to the public, allowing users to identify AI-generated watermarks in images, video, and audio. The tool currently supports media created by Google and select partners like OpenAI and NVIDIA.
Why it matters
As AI-generated content becomes more prevalent, tools for verifying media authenticity are increasingly critical for digital literacy and misinformation prevention.
Google opened its SynthID Detector to everyone, globally in English. It checks images, video, and audio for SynthID watermarks from Google and partner AI tools.
SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern 6 hours ago ⋅ 2 min read SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer at Search Engine Journal Bio Follow Google has opened its SynthID Detector to everyone. The tool checks image, video, and audio files for SynthID, Google's invisible watermark for AI media, and is available globally in English starting today.
Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Science and Strategic Initiatives at Google DeepMind, announced the expansion in a blog post . Google introduced an early version of the detector last year, and journalists, media professionals and researchers could join a waitlist for access.
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