Google has announced on Thursday that effective this week will begin to add a digital watermark to pictures in photographs with genetic AI. The watermark specifically applies to images that change using the Reimagine feature located in Magic Editor on Pixel 9 devices.
Announced in 2024, Reimagine uses genetic AI to change the aspects of a digital photo. Like other features of the Magic Editor, it is designed to touch the images that have been shot. This use of AI has been reunited to much more dramatic image processes, blurring the line between digital photos and fully AI created by AI.
As AI genetic images grow more and more vibrant, digital supporters have called for a universal method to help the public determine if a photo was created by the whole cloth. Digital watering often floats as a possible solution, as it can be added to a file without changing the image itself immediately.
Google will use Synthetic to highlight related images. Created by Google’s Deepmind Division, the feature “incorporates a digital watermark directly into AI content, without attenuating the original content”. Synthid can also be used to scan images for possible watercolors. The feature, which is currently located on Beta, also works with text files and videos produced by AI.
Users can also click on “About this image” to locate digital watercolors within the metadata of a photo.
Google adds that some treatments may not activate the use of synthid. “In some cases, the treatments made using reunion may be too small for synthid to highlight and detect – as if changing the color of a small flower on the background of an image,” he writes.
The development of operation is part of a greater effort To make AI processing more transparent within Google Photos. The company reports its published AI principles as guiding light for such decisions.
