Google Opens SynthID Detector Globally — But It Only Sees Watermarks It Knows

Google has made its SynthID Detector publicly available worldwide, letting anyone with a Google, Apple or OpenAI account upload images, video or audio and check within seconds whether it carries an AI watermark. Google says SynthID has now watermarked more than 180 billion images and videos and 240,000 years of audio content . What it can and cannot tell you The tool detects invisible watermarks embedded by Google and participating companies — currently OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao , with Apple expe