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Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone, checking images, video and audio for AI watermarks

Google's SynthID Detector is now free for anyone and reads watermarks from Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao, but checks are capped at about 10 a day and a clean result proves little, since Runway, Kling and Midjourney are not covered.

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Google opened SynthID Detector to everyone on Oct 7. Upload an image, video or audio file and it checks for SynthID, an invisible watermark hidden in the pixels or the waveform, and tells you whether the file was made or edited with AI from Google or its partners OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao. Google says Apple support is coming soon.

The checks are free but rationed. You sign in with a Google, OpenAI or Apple account and get roughly 10 checks a day, a limit Google engineers told Ars Technica exists to stop people tuning tools that strip the watermark. The answer is a plain yes or no, and it cannot separate a fully generated shot from one that was only edited.

In practice, festivals, clients and broadcasters now have a free lookup for footage from the biggest labs, so a Veo shot or a ChatGPT image you deliver can be identified in seconds. A clean result proves much less, because Runway, Kling, Midjourney and ByteDance are not on the partner list and most open-weight models (the ones anyone can download and run) add no watermark at all.

Source: Google, Ars Technica and Engadget, Oct 7, 2026.

Provenance — Google — Expanding SynthID Detector; Ars Technica — Google rolls out improved SynthID detector, now available globally; Engadget — Google's AI detection website is now available; @googledeepmind announcement · Status: verified: HIGH (Google blog + Ars Technica + Engadget)

One free upload now checks your footage for Google and OpenAI watermarks

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Screenshot of the FilmCraft video editor with the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch in the program monitor, a color panel on the right and a multi-track edit timeline below

Late on Thursday 1 October, Brandon Thomas, the CEO of the AI image and video studio ArtCraft, left a comment on Hacker News that has since traveled a long way: "Software is over. But for real. I just one-shotted Photoshop. The whole thing." Within a week his company had put seven free, open-source desktop apps on GitHub that copy the look, panels and shortcuts of Adobe's suite, and one of them, FilmCraft, is a video editor built to feel like Premiere Pro.

Thomas says he built them in Rust with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, which came out on 22 September, and the code backs him up. Of the last 100 commits to FilmCraft, 48 carry a Claude trailer, and the README says its own screenshots and grades were made "by an agent driving the running app." The apps are dual-licensed MIT or Apache 2.0, so anyone can use, change and redistribute the code, although the ArtCraft name and logos are excluded.

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