Google has opened its SynthID Detector to the public, giving people a way to check selected media for the company’s AI watermark. The standalone portal accepts images, video and audio. It looks for SynthID specifically; it is not a general test for every AI-made file.
Google DeepMind says the detector portal launched in 2025 and first went to journalists and media professionals for testing. The company now says access is expanding to everyone. MacRumors reported on October 7 that the English-language site is available worldwide and requires sign-in.
SynthID embeds an imperceptible watermark into AI-generated content from supported systems. Google says the technology spans images, audio, text and video. For images and video, it designed the mark to remain detectable after common edits, including cropping, filters, frame-rate changes and lossy compression.
DeepMind says those changes are not meant to affect media quality. That resilience helps explain the detector’s role: it searches for a signal viewers cannot see. It does not independently verify every edit, creator or claim attached to a file.
The public tool supports media made with Google AI and partners named by Google, including OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao. Apple support is described as coming soon. The supported list matters because a detector can report only a watermark it recognizes, not every possible origin.
A missing SynthID match does not show who made a file. It shows the tool did not identify its watermark in the submitted media. A file without a detectable SynthID mark may not return a match, whatever its origin.
Google also describes checks inside its own products. Users can ask Gemini to check images, video or audio for Google AI-generated or edited content. Search and Chrome can check Google AI images and video. Those options extend Google’s coverage, not universal AI detection.
For newsrooms and readers, the useful takeaway is a narrow provenance signal. A match can point to supported content carrying the mark. A non-match cannot settle whether another system generated, edited or distributed the file. Readers still need other evidence to assess a file’s history.
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