GOOGLE BUILT A TOOL TO TELL IF AI FAKED IT
You can now upload a photo, video, audio, or text to Google’s SynthID Detector — and it’ll tell you if it was made by artificial intelligence.
It works by scanning for invisible “watermarks” hidden in content created by Google’s own AI tools, like Gemini, Imagen, Lyria, and Veo.
These watermarks are embedded during creation and survive editing, cropping, or compression — meaning even if you tweak the content, SynthID can still flag it.
For example, in audio files, it pinpoints which seconds were AI-made. In images, it marks the most AI-suspect areas.
Google’s rolling it out to testers now and plans a waitlist for everyone else.
The goal: crack down on deepfakes and fake info before it floods your feed.
