Advances in generator AI have enabled people to create content in a whole new way, from text to high-quality audio, images, and videos. As these features progress and become more widely available, reliability, context and validation questions emerge.
Today we are unveiling SynthID Detector, a verification portal that quickly and efficiently identifies AI-generated content created with Google AI. This portal provides detection capabilities across different modalities in one location, providing inherent transparency in the rapidly evolving landscape of generated media. You can also highlight which parts of the content are visible through the SynthID.
When we launched SynthID, when we were a cutting-edge tool that embeds unperceptible watermarks and allows AI to identify content generated by our AI, our aim was to provide a set of new technology solutions to minimize misinformation and misunderstanding.
SynthID not only preserves the quality of the content, but also acts as a robust watermark that can be detected even when content is shared or undergoes various transformations. Originally we focused only on AI-generated images, but we expanded SynthID to cover AI-generated text, audio and video content, including content generated by Gemini, Imagen, Lyria and VEO models. Over 10 billion pieces of content have already been exposed to SynthID.
How SynthID Detector works
When you upload an image, audio track, video, or text created using Google’s AI tools, the portal will scan the media for a SynthID watermark. If a watermark is detected, the portal highlights certain parts of content where the watermark is most likely.
For audio, the portal detects a SynthID watermark, and in the image the watermark is the most likely area.
