We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for invisibly tagging image, video, and audio files with information about their origins, are getting their biggest expansion to date, and with it, the opportunity to turn the tide against unlabeled AI fakery that's deceiving people online.
Yesterday during its I/O conference, Google announced that the ability to verify whether images carry SynthID markers - the invisible watermarking system that's applied to content generated by Google AI models - i …
