LOS ANGELES: Google is launching an artificial intelligence (AI) detector to let users check if images, videos or audio files were created with the company's AI tools.
The SynthID detector searches for evidence of Google's invisible digital watermarks that are embedded in AI content. As well as content from Google Gemini, Imagen, Lyria and Veo, content from partners such as OpenAI (ChatGPT), Nvidia, Kakao and soon also Apple can be detected.
One thing to always bear in mind: The detector only recognises whether a SynthID is present. This means it won't be able to detect AI-generated content in every case.
By no means all AI-generated content is marked with digital watermarks such as SynthID. Since the introduction of SynthID in 2023, more than 180 billion images, videos or audio files have been marked, according to Google.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, also has a similar tool online. It can be used to examine images or audio files for evidence of whether they were produced using OpenAI tools. – dpa
