{
  "id": 12836650,
  "title": "Google Opens SynthID Detector To All: Lets Users Check Images, Video & Audio For AI Watermarks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/google-opens-synthid-detector-to-all-lets-users-check-images-video",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-08T09:25:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/google-opens-synthid-detector-to-all-lets-users-check-images-video-audio-for-ai-watermarks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google has expanded the availability of its SynthID Detector globally, allowing anyone to check whether an image, video or audio file was created using AI tools from Google or its partners. Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Science and Strategic Initiatives at Google DeepMind, announced the global launch in a blog post this morning. The tool was first introduced last year to assist media professionals in verifying AI-generated content.\n\nThe expanded detector now covers content made with AI from Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao, with Apple set to join soon. Google's SynthID technology works by embedding imperceptible watermarks into images, videos and audio, which can be detected later. As of now, the detector has watermarked over 180 billion images and videos, and 240,000 years of audio.\n\nIt's important to note that the SynthID Detector is not a general AI-detection system. According to Gadgets360, it specifically looks for the SynthID watermark, and media without this watermark may not be flagged, even if AI generated it. The tool's capabilities are currently limited to identifying content created with SynthID watermarks from specified AI tools.\n\nGoogle has integrated checks for SynthID watermarks into its existing products, including Search, the Gemini app and Chrome. The company says these verification features already handle over 1 million requests a day.",
  "summary": "Google has made its SynthID Detector available to the general public worldwide. Anyone can now check whether an image, video or audio file was made with AI tools from Google or its partners. What has changed? Google said the tool is available globally in English starting today, in a blog post by Pushmeet Kohli, VP, Science and Strategic Initiatives at Google DeepMind. An early version was…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}