Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create

hands on Google Gemini users can now use the AI's app and website to figure out whether an image is AI-generated, though with some considerable limitations.

Google today announced the general release of SynthID Detector in the Gemini app and Gemini on the web, allowing users to upload any image and ask the bot whether the picture was created or modified using AI. Because the new feature is using SynthID, however, it's incredibly limited – it can only recognize images created by Gemini and tagged with Google-made SynthID watermarks. 

Developed in 2023, SynthID has been part of Google's various image-generating AI models for a couple of years now. The watermarking system is designed to be imperceptible to humans and still detectable when images are cropped or modified, according to Google. 

SynthID is open source, and Google has scored a few high-profile partners in Hugging Face and Nvidia, but ...