Google Launches Global SynthID Detector for AI Watermarks

Google launched SynthID.com, a public site detecting AI watermarks in images, video, and audio from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and soon Apple. Previously limited to trusted testers, the tool offers yes/no results after signing in with a Google, OpenAI, or Apple account. Daily quota is ten checks to prevent abuse. The detector misses Meta's watermarks, unwatermarked models, and local open-weight models. Google's Gemini models have watermarked 180 billion images/videos and 240,000 ye