SynthID Detector

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1. 2d
   AI fakes to warn friends and family about, from fake pets to fake damage photos

   A TechRadar reporter rounds up the AI-generated fakes and scams he has seen over more than a year in Reddit's r/isthisAI community, where users ask others to judge whether photos, videos and messages are real. The categories include faked rental-property damage used to demand money from renters, fake notices and announcements, AI images attached to real news events, romance scams, puppy-sale scams, politically motivated misinformation images, and fabricated documents such as receipts, medical photos and plane tickets. The author says he tested whether ChatGPT would help him create fake certificates, fossils and receipts and that in most cases it did not stop him; the piece advises reverse image searching, checking original sources, being wary of emotionally charged content, and notes Google has widened access to its SynthID Detector, which does not catch all AI content.

   TechRadar · 🔥 3
2. Oct 7
   Google's SynthID Detector opens to all, now reads OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao watermarks

   Google has launched the SynthID Detector website (synthid.com), letting anyone free of charge check whether an image, video or audio clip was AI-generated or AI-edited, after signing in with a Google, OpenAI or Apple account. The tool was previously limited to journalists, media professionals and researchers; it now detects SynthID watermarks from Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao, with Apple support "coming soon." Google says Gemini alone has embedded SynthID in over 180 billion images and videos plus 240,000 years of audio, and that it handles roughly 1 million verification requests a day. It still cannot catch all AI content, watermarks can be stripped, and it does not distinguish fully AI-created media from media merely edited with AI.

   Engadget AI · 🔥 0

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