Google Adds Invisible Watermarks To Detect AI Edits

2025-02-07 07:16:57

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Washington: Google announced that it would begin adding digital watermarks to photos that were altered using its AI-powered magic editing tool.

According to a statement from the company, the "SynthID" system, which will be available in a few days, will make it easier for users to recognize altered images by integrating digital identification data into the images to determine whether they were produced artificially or through modification. Images produced only using Google's Imagen image creation model are already utilized with this system.

Similar systems have been developed by other companies. For example, Adobe uses the Content Credentials system in its Creative Cloud applications.

Since these watermarks are part of the image's metadata and can only be confirmed using Google's /about this image/ service, they aid in tracking modifications.

Although watermarking technologies are a significant advance in the fight against artificial intelligence-based counterfeiting, some experts feel that they are insufficient on their own because businesses require a range of technical strategies to guarantee the legitimacy of digital information on a broad scale.

Since last October, Google has begun to include notifications in the file descriptions of its photo service, Google Photos, to indicate whether the images have been altered by artificial intelligence.

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