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Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?

By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
Elif Buse Doyuran, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Jean Burgess, Distinguished Professor of Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology

AI watermarks are supposed to help us tell if content is real or generated. But they dramatically vary in effectiveness.

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