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SynthID (images)

Google DeepMind · 29 August 2023

Imperceptible pixel-level watermark and detector for Imagen images, in beta on Vertex AI.

Embeds a watermark in image pixels that survives filters, colour changes and JPEG compression, and returns three detection levels (detected, not detected, possibly detected). First Google watermarking tool; later extended to text, audio, video.

Date
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Lab
Google DeepMind
Kind
product
Access
closed API

Beta limited to Vertex AI customers using Imagen.

Sources

  1. deepmind.google/blog/identifying-ai-generated-images-with-synthid/

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