Advances in generative AI are making it possible for people to create content in entirely recent ways — from text to prime quality audio, images and videos. As these capabilities advance and develop into more broadly available, questions of authenticity, context and verification emerge.
Today we’re announcing SynthID Detector, a verification portal to quickly and efficiently discover AI-generated content made with Google AI. The portal provides detection capabilities across different modalities in a single place and provides essential transparency within the rapidly evolving landscape of generative media. It could possibly also highlight which parts of the content usually tend to have been watermarked with SynthID.
Once we launched SynthID — a state-of-the-art tool that embeds imperceptible watermarks and enables the identification of AI-generated content — our aim was to supply a set of novel technical solutions to assist minimise misinformation and misattribution.
SynthID not only preserves the content’s quality, it acts as a sturdy watermark that is still detectable even when the content is shared or undergoes a spread of transformations. While originally focused on AI-generated imagery only, we’ve since expanded SynthID to cover AI-generated text, audio and video content, including content generated by our Gemini, Imagen, Lyria and Veo models across Google. Over 10 billion pieces of content have already been watermarked with SynthID.
How SynthID Detector works
While you upload a picture, audio track, video or piece of text created using Google’s AI tools, the portal will scan the media for a SynthID watermark. If a watermark is detected, the portal will highlight specific portions of the content almost definitely to be watermarked.
For audio, the portal pinpoints specific segments where a SynthID watermark is detected, and for images, it indicates areas where a watermark is almost definitely.
