Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

Last year, Google added support for SynthID detection in the Gemini app. You can upload the suspect content and ask the chatbot if it’s AI-generated. This should work reliably with all those billions of Google AI images and audio clips from the past three years. A few ambitious tinkerers have claimed to find methods for removing the hidden SynthID patterns. Google contends that none of these bypasses actually work. …