Google Turns on SynthID AI Watermark Feature For Google Photos

Google Photos: A new feature in Google Photos will let users determine whether or not an image was altered with artificial intelligence (AI). The Mountain View-based software company will use SynthID, a watermarking technology, to indicate images that have been altered using Reimagine in Magic Editor. The label is shown in the image’s “About this image” section and can also be found using specialized tools. The action is probably intended to lessen the number of possible deepfakes that Google’s AI image manipulation tool may produce.

AI watermarks will now be automatically added by Google Photos to images that have been edited with Magic Editor. This will mostly affect the Reimagine tool, which uses the Imagen 3 AI model to add new elements to an image.

The tag is visible in the About this Image menu, but specialized detection tools can also find it. Since the information is added to the image’s pixels, this watermark cannot be eliminated by cropping, applying filters, or copying the picture.

Customers of Vertex AI can use Google’s text-to-image models, Imagen 3 and Imagen 2, to access SynthID technology, which produces high-quality images in a variety of artistic styles. Furthermore, SynthID has been incorporated into Veo and is applied to ImageFX’s image outputs.In order to identify digital watermarking, it may also scan a single image or the individual frames of a movie.

People are less likely to fall for deepfakes as a result of the drive to watermark AI photographs. Any realistic material that has been artificially created with AI or improved with other digital tools with the goal of misleading or disseminating false information is considered a deepfake.

Notably, Google has explained that, like previous Magic Editor tools intended for on-device improvements, Reimagine employs generative AI to alter digital photographs. More comprehensive modifications are made possible by its sophisticated capabilities, though, and users can view the information to see if the AI watermark has been placed.