Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation

The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149 years after the invention of the camera—for humanity to create 1.5 billion images. It took generative AI just 18 months to do the same.