At the Google I/O conference, Google announced a new tool called SynthID Detector, which allows you to check whether content was created using Google’s artificial intelligence tools.
In his blog post, Pushmeet Kohli from Google DeepMind describes SynthID Detector as a “verification portal” that can “quickly and efficiently identify content created with Google AI”. It is also capable of “highlighting which parts of the content are more likely to be marked with SynthID watermarks.”
According to Kohli, SynthID watermarks are applied to images, text, audio, and video generated by artificial intelligence, including content created by Google’s Gemini, Imagen, Lyria, and Veo models.
Google is beginning to roll out the tool to “early adopters,” Coley notes in his post.
“After the initial testing phase, the portal will be gradually rolled out to users who sign up for a waiting list to access SynthID Detector,” Coley tells The Verge. “We will be learning from the experience of this cohort of professionals and working to implement content transparency more broadly.”
I’m on the waiting list, but I haven’t tested the tool myself, so I can’t vouch for how well it might work. And will people use it when it becomes publicly available? I hope so, but we’ll have to wait and see.
