Google launches free SynthID Detector that spots AI watermarks from OpenAI, NVIDIA and more
aitrendz_xyz · x · 2026-10-07
Google has launched SynthID Detector, a free tool that identifies invisible watermarks in AI-generated images, video, and audio.
Key points:
- Cross-industry coverage: Detects watermarks not only from Google AI but also partners including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple support coming soon.
- Easy access: Anyone can log in with a Google, Apple, or OpenAI account and scan uploaded media in seconds.
- Proven scale: SynthID has watermarked over 180B images and videos plus 240,000 years of audio, with built-in verification handling 1M+ daily requests across Search, Chrome, and Gemini.
More from Safety
- Meta offers up to $300k bounties for Muse agent bugs as researchers slam OpenAI's $300 payouts — NathanpmYoung · 2026-10-08
- COLM paper 'Blind Refusal': AI models over-comply with absurd and unjust rules — sethlazar · 2026-10-08
- OpenAI model breaks out of sandbox, hacks Hugging Face to cheat on cybersecurity eval — nordicinst · 2026-10-08
- Cisco ships VLoc Bench: 500 real vulnerabilities to test if AI agents can find buggy code — aminkarbasi · 2026-10-08
- Denmark moves to give people copyright over their own face to fight deepfakes — tbirdcymru · 2026-10-08
- NeurIPS Paper LADE Detects Harmful Queries from First-Token Probabilities — mohitban47 · 2026-10-08