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SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

(deepmind.google)
110 points jonbaer | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 03:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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egeozcan ◴[30 Aug 25 05:28 UTC] No.45072101[source]▶
I guess this is the start of a new arms race on making generated content pass these checks undetected and detecting them anyway.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[30 Aug 25 06:28 UTC] No.45072376[source]▶
Its not really an arms race; any gen AI system that doesn't explicitly incorporate a watermarking tool like this won't be detectable by tools that read the watermarks.

There is a kind of arms race that has existed for a while for non-watermarked content, except that the detection tools are pretty much Magic 8-ball level of reliability, so there's not a lot of effort on the counter-detection side.