Google announce the rollout of a new feature in the Gemini app, which allows users to verify if an image was generated or edited using the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
As Google said this move is aim at increasing content transparency using SynthID, its digital watermarking technology.
This capability will also be expand to support additional formats beyond images, such as video and audio clips.
What is SynthID?
As per Google, SynthID is embedded in all images generated by its tools.
It now provides a verification feature in the Gemini app to check whether an image was generated by Google AI.
Google said that visible watermarks are use for free and Pro users, while Ultra subscribers and enterprise tools will have the option of removing visible marks for professional work.
Google is also testing a verification portal call as SynthID Detector with journalists and media professionals.
How to Verify if an Image Was Generated or Edited Using Gemini?
Follow These Steps :
- Open the Gemini app and upload the image that you wish to check.
- Tap the Files icon to upload it from your device or the Gallery icon to upload it from your photo library
- When uploaded, enter a prompt like, Was this created with Google AI?” or “Is this AI-generated?” in the text field.
- Gemini will then check for the SynthID watermark and use its own reasoning to return a response
- The AI tool will tell you what percentage of the image was create using AI
As per Google, SynthID verification is valid for images generated using its proprietary AI tools and won’t work with non-Google AI products.
Google recently expand this feature to academia, researchers, and many media publishers.
Google said that it will expand SynthID verification to support additional formats in the future.
Currently limit to images, this capability will be extend to video and audio clips, too.
Also, Google has plans to add SynthID verification to more surfaces, such as Search.
SynthID was first unveil by Google DeepMind in August 2023 as a beta project aim at correctly labelling AI-generate content.
