Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer

Google's DeepMind division has announced a watermarking tool focused on detecting AI-generated text with high accuracy.

SynthID is a technology from Google DeepMind that watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, or video.

The move gives the entire AI industry an easy, seemingly robust way to silently mark content as artificially generated, which could be useful for detecting deepfakes and other damaging AI content before it goes out in the wild.

The tool subtly alters predictions to watermark text based on minute, measurable differences between predicted and actual output. DeepMind's open-sourcing of SynthID encourages industry-wide adoption,

Google DeepMind releases open-source SynthID watermarking and identification, to make AI-generated content easier to spot