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    SynthID joins TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 list

    Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli says SynthID has watermarked over 180 billion images and videos in three years of use.

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    TIME included SynthID on its Best Inventions of 2026 list. Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli says the technology has also watermarked 240,000 years of audio. SynthID embeds imperceptible marks in AI-generated content. Its website says the detector can check images, video and audio for those marks, but it cannot identify content from models that have not adopted SynthID.

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    Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeetI am proud to share that SynthID has been recognised by @TIME as one of the Best Inventions of 2026. When we first began developing this technology @GoogleDeepMind, the goal was to find a robust, imperceptible way to watermark AI-generated media directly at the moment of creation, without compromising content quality. It was no small research challenge. But three years into its use, SynthID has already watermarked over 180 billion images and videos, alongside 240,000 years of audio. We’ve also recently extended these watermarking principles to biology with SynthID Bio. SynthID isn't a silver bullet for misinformation and this isn't a challenge any one company can solve alone; but it does represent a step toward a more transparent information ecosystem. A sincere thank you to the teams across @Google for their contributions to making SynthID a reality, and also for the support the team has received from @demishassabis, @sundarpichai and the rest of the Google leadership on this journey. You can try the SynthID Universal Detector at http://synthid.com. Read more: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/google-deepmind-synthid/1h
    Abigail See@abigail_e_seeVery happy to see the impact of SynthID growing over time. In the 2 years since our publication and open-sourcing, SynthID-text has been adapted to watermark protein sequences in SynthID Bio, and a version is used in Claude to watermark text in line with the new EU AI Act.1h
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    Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeetI am proud to share that SynthID has been recognised by @TIME as one of the Best Inventions of 2026. When we first began developing this technology @GoogleDeepMind, the goal was to find a robust, imperceptible way to watermark AI-generated media directly at the moment of creation, without compromising content quality. It was no small research challenge. But three years into its use, SynthID has already watermarked over 180 billion images and videos, alongside 240,000 years of audio. We’ve also recently extended these watermarking principles to biology with SynthID Bio. SynthID isn't a silver bullet for misinformation and this isn't a challenge any one company can solve alone; but it does represent a step toward a more transparent information ecosystem. A sincere thank you to the teams across @Google for their contributions to making SynthID a reality, and also for the support the team has received from @demishassabis, @sundarpichai and the rest of the Google leadership on this journey. You can try the SynthID Universal Detector at http://synthid.com. Read more: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/google-deepmind-synthid/1h
    Abigail See@abigail_e_seeVery happy to see the impact of SynthID growing over time. In the 2 years since our publication and open-sourcing, SynthID-text has been adapted to watermark protein sequences in SynthID Bio, and a version is used in Claude to watermark text in line with the new EU AI Act.1h
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