Google launches cross-vendor AI watermark detection, enabling checks for ChatGPT-generated images too.

Insight Beating AI Flash News: Google has opened its SynthID Detector to the global public. This web tool checks for invisible watermarks embedded by AI in images, videos, and audio. Previously tested primarily for media professionals, the detector now supports watermark recognition from OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple’s watermarks set to be added soon. OpenAI started integrating SynthID into generated images as early as May this year, and expanded the feature to select audio content in July. Google’s earlier detection tool only worked for its own watermarks, but users can now check content from multiple vendors via the same entry. Google notes that SynthID has already watermarked over 180 billion images and videos, with audio content totaling an equivalent of 240,000 years in duration. The new website requires user login, with each individual granted roughly 10 detection attempts per day. It should be noted that this tool only detects SynthID watermarks and cannot identify all AI-generated content. The absence of a detected watermark does not prove content is authentically captured or human-made, and content from AI models not using this watermark may remain completely undetectable. Detection link: https://synthid.com/