Stephen Schenck / Android Authority
TL;DR Google uses SynthID to watermark AI content.
Earlier this year the company launched its SynthID Detector portal for analyzing media.
Now you can access SynthID analysis directly in Gemini.
Do you have a friend who really prides themselves on being able to spot fake, manipulated, composite images? “I’ve seen a few ‘shops in my time. I can tell from the pixels.” Heck, maybe that person is you. But while spotting a quick clone job on an old internet message board was one thing, modern AI has really upped its game when it comes to producing realistic-looking fakes. Thankfully, we’re getting new tools to spot them, and one such solution is rolling out now.
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We’re talking about SynthID, which itself isn’t anything new — Google’s been using it to invisibly watermark its own AI-generated and -edited photos, videos, audio, and even text, for a while now. That’s well and good, but how are you supposed to recognize content like that when you stumble across it?
Earlier this year Google announced its SynthID Detector for exactly that purpose, but that was cumbersome from the get-go. Beyond access being initially limited with a waitlist, you had to manually upload suspect media to a web portal for analysis. So while that worked for identifying AI, it was far from streamlined.
Instead of jumping through those hoops, we’ve now got a much easier solution: SynthID recognition has come to Google Gemini.
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