Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public

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Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public

The Decoder · Oct 7, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carry the watermark, but the tool only identifies SynthID-tagged content, not AI-generated media in general.…

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