It was April of 2018, and a day like any other until the first text arrived asking "Have you seen this yet?!" with a link to YouTube. Seconds later, former President Barack Obama was on screen delivering a speech in which he proclaimed President Donald Trump "is a total and complete [expletive].

Google DeepMind has recently developed an open-source AI watermarking tool called SynthID with the aim of fighting proliferating AI-generated text. Open-Sources

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

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.

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 can now watermark AI text. SynthID Text works by changing the distribution of tokens – the building blocks of AI-generated text, otherwise characterized as groups of lett

Google is open-sourcing its AI watermarking toolkit SynthID to all developers and businesses after having used it in their Gemini AI model.

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,