Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone

Wednesday October 7, 2026 4:42 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Google today said it is making its SynthID Detector available to everyone for identifying content created using AI.

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SynthID Detector first rolled out to members of the media last year, and it is now available worldwide in English. SynthID Detector is a website that lets users upload a photo, video, or audio file to determine whether it has a SynthID watermark that identifies it as AI-generated. Google's tool cannot distinguish between AI-created and AI-edited media, and it requires signing in to use.

SynthID embeds digital watermarks into content created by AI. The watermarks are not visible to humans but can be detected with Google's website. SynthID Detector can identify media generated using AI from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Kakao. Apple also plans to support SynthID later this year.

Google says its website is not a general AI detector and can only detect media that uses the SynthID technology. SynthID checks are already integrated into Search, Gemini, and Chrome for users who want an alternative to SynthID Detector.

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Top Rated Comments

HQuest

9 hours ago at 05:13 pm

Wait until we have AI to detect whether AI is detecting AI.

Or until AI is detecting AI detecting AI detecting AI.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

delsoul

9 hours ago at 04:45 pm

Using AI to detect AI in photos.

Amazing

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

HQuest

9 hours ago at 05:10 pm

Will it be used at YouTube to flag AI YouTube content? Because this is long overdue. The current system works as well as their comment spam filter.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

alexandr

8 hours ago at 06:06 pm

Well thank god, 'cause I really thought that raccoon was eating that sambwich!

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

TheDailyApple

8 hours ago at 05:16 pm

yea, and you have to upload to a google website, probably (guessing) needing an account ;(

Edit: this detects if Google AI was used, chatgpt, grok etc - will they ever support this? my guess: not only no, hell no

Did you even read the article? OpenAI was clearly mentioned as supporting it.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)