By Marty Swant

Last week, Google Deepmind expanded the availability of its SynthID tool for watermarking text generated by AI. After implementing SynthID text in Google Gemini earlier this year, it’s making the tool open-source to help improve transparency of AI-generated text from other large language models.

Watermarking AI content has been a high priority since AI-generated content began to proliferate over the last two years. While the focus has been largely on watermarking AI images and videos, watermarking text could help detect AI-generated misinformation and scams along with fake product reviews and copyrighted materials. This week’s updates, launching in beta, are part of a broader expansion of SynthID for text, music, images and video, with each content type having a different system for watermarking.

“Being able to identify AI-generated content is critical to promoting trust in information,” read a DeepMind blog post. “While not a silver bullet for addressing problems such as misinformation or misattribution, SynthID is a suite of promising technical solutions to this pressing AI safety issue.”

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