Google Launches SynthID Website to Identify AI-Generated Media
On October 7, 2026, Google launched a public website called SynthID that allows users to verify whether media such as images, videos, or audio clips are generated using artificial intelligence. The tool had previously been available for testing by journalists and researchers at Google I/O in the previous year before being made accessible to all users. SynthID supports multiple file formats across image, video, and audio types. It is integrated into several of Google’s AI models like Nano Banana, Veo, Lyria, Gemini, Flow, ProducerAI, and Vids, which use it to watermark generated content. Other companies such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao, and soon Apple also support SynthID. Google has embedded the verification tool into its Gemini app and Google Chrome browser. The company reports that users make approximately one million requests per day for media verification using this system.
