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Date : Thu Oct 24 2024 13:15:06

Google's new AI tool lets developers watermark and detect text generated by 
AI models

Date:
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:03:00 +0000

Description:
You can now use a Google tool to watermark and identify AI-generated text to 
protect against misinformation.

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Google has shared details of SynthID Text, a new tool designed to watermark 
and detect AI-generated text, which has been released as an open-source. 

Available via Hugging Face, developers and businesses can start using SynthID 
Text to embed watermarks into AI-generated text to make it easier to identify 
content created by genAI models. 

The company hopes its new tool will help prevent misinformation, as well as 
ensure proper attribution. Google can now watermark AI text 

SynthID Text works by changing the distribution of tokens  the building 
blocks of AI-generated text, otherwise characterized as groups of letters 
that make up words or parts of words. Existing AI models already generate 
text based on probabilities, or guessing which word comes next. All SynthID 
Text does is change the likelihood of certain words being selected, creating 
a specific watermark pattern that it can later identify. 

Google reckons that the tool can still function after text has been 
paraphrased or modified slightly, but the company did acknowledge some 
limitations. For example, short texts, translations and factual responses 
where theres little room for variation can limit SynthID Texts effectiveness. 
The company also noted thoroughly rewriting a response can greatly reduce 
detector confidence scores. 

SynthID Text has already been integrated into Gemini since earlier this year, 
however Google isnt the only player in the AI space. OpenAI, which makes the 
Gemini-rivalling ChatGPT, is unlikely to want to use its competitors tool. 
Instead, it has been exploring its own watermarking technology. 

Moreover, its unclear how these different systems will interoperate in the 
future as AI-generated content becomes more widespread on the internet, and 
whether one system will emerge as an industry standard, or whether legal 
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