Google open sourced its SynthID technology for AI-generated text

The SynthID tool is a feature of Google’s AI division that allows developers to add digital watermarks to the output generated by generative models. Watermark can be used to recognize such texts and even specify the type of model used.

What is the use of Google’s SynthID technology?

The expansion of the use of generative language models for text generation has made the need for tools to recognize this type of content more noticeable. For this purpose, Google uses its SynthID technology to watermark text created with artificial intelligence so that they can be easily identified. Now Google has announced that the mentioned tool will be open source for other developers to use it to register the watermark on the output of their models.

Google’s SynthID tool has been made available to enthusiasts through the company’s Responsible Generative AI development kit, which provides other features and capabilities to developers. The head of Google’s DeepMind department pointed out that the purpose of such an action was to make it easier to develop ethical and responsible artificial intelligence.

The importance of watermarking in the output of language models has increased dramatically, and even the state of California is looking to make the use of watermarking mandatory for all companies. With the help of this feature, it can prevent the spread of false news, especially in the field of politics or immoral content. Since last year, the Chinese government has forced developers to use watermarks on text-generating artificial intelligence tools. Currently, Geminai chatbot is equipped with SynthID and its texts can be tracked and identified.

Google first unveiled its SynthID tool this summer, which can identify text, photos, videos, and audio files by placing hidden watermarks on them. Google claims that the special text version of this tool changes the text in such a way that it will be possible for the computer to recognize them; But the readers do not notice the existence of such changes in the text. It has also been mentioned that the use of watermark will not affect the quality, accuracy, speed and creativity of the outputs, which was considered one of the important problems of such tools in the past.