Google's SynthID watermark survives hundreds of edits and compressions in tests, but labeling AI content may not stop disinformation as generative AI created 100 billion images in two years.

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation

Deciding what’s real on the Internet won’t be easy in the future. The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149 years after the invention of the camera—for humanity to create 1.5 billion images. It took generative AI just 18 months to do the same. And AI didn’t stop there. This spring, Google announced at I/O that its tools had been used to crea...