SynthID Detector can check media to see if it was generated with Google's AI tools

engadget.comPublished: 5/20/2025

Summary

Google's SynthID Detector offers a robust digital watermark tool designed to identify AI-generated content across images, video, audio, and text, enhancing transparency in an era where AI's influence grows. As an open-source solution for text detection and collaborating with NVIDIA to mark media from their model, it complements GetReal Security's verification efforts. While valuable, its utility hinges on the dominance of a single AI company, though it provides essential checks against spurious content as journalists and developers join a waitlist.