DeepMind's SynthID named TIME Best Invention, has watermarked 180B images
pushmeet · x · 2026-10-15
Pushmeet Kohli of Google DeepMind announced that SynthID, the AI content watermarking technology, was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
- SynthID embeds imperceptible watermarks into AI-generated media at creation time without degrading quality
- Three years in, it has watermarked over 180 billion images and videos plus 240,000 years of audio
- The watermarking principles were recently extended to biology as SynthID Bio
- Kohli notes watermarking is not a silver bullet for misinformation and requires industry-wide collaboration
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