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.

It’s much easier for AI to fake text than it is for audio, images, or videos. As such, watermarking said content seems like an impossible task. However, it seems that Google has a solution in the form of the SynthID Text tool.

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.

The company conducted a massive experiment on its watermarking tool SynthID’s usefulness by letting millions of Gemini users rank it.

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

Google's DeepMind division has announced a watermarking tool focused on detecting AI-generated text with high accuracy.