Google has finally open-sourced SynthID Text, which is its watermarking and detection tool for AI-generated text.

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.

Developers can now use Google’s SynthID Text technology to determine whether text was made by their own AI models.

Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to identify, is now available open-source through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, the company announced on X.

Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by generative AI models, generally available. SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit.

DeepMind isn't stopping at labeling only Google Gemini output. SynthID watermarking and detection have already been open-sourced and offered to developers of other AI models, to encourage its adaptation for use with today's many competing LLMs.

Developers can now use Google’s SynthID Text technology to determine whether text was made by their own AI models.

Google DeepMind is open-sourcing its tool for identifying AI-generated text, and detailed a real-world evaluation of it in a paper published on Wednesday. Why it matters: AI-generated text is fueling plagiarism,

Researchers at Google DeepMind in London have devised a ‘watermark’ to invisibly label text that is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) — and deployed it to millions of chatbot users. The watermark,