OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

Post by janalsncm » Thu, May 21, 2026, 12:02 AM UTC

WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #98

dylan604 wrote: post #97

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Because DRM is primarily used to ensure the content is not shared in a way the owner does not allow. That is not what SynthID is doing. All it does is allow people to know it is a generated image specifically for when it starts to be widely shared on the internet. So strictly speaking brings a lot to the discussion when you actually think about it. Stating that DRM != SynthID is addressing issues where people seem to…

You are making a category error -- "this image made by OpenAI" is a drm assertion You wont be able to assert copyright of the picture that you added an OpenAI red bowtie to, thats a DRM issue.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 21, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

himata4113 wrote: post #190

m00dy wrote: post #183

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Sorry, but what you’re saying goes beyond the kind of free expression I would respect. Can you tell us what fraud you believe we’re committing, under what law, and based on what evidence? This blog post clearly shows that Deepwalker can break SynthID, which is a closed-source watermarking system.

I mean it's on your own page: https://deepwalker.xyz/use-cases , while not particulary 'fraud', it's definitely in the grey area of what is allowed and definitely breaks ToS. I guess it would be more accurate to say that it enables fraud. It's the same way proxy companies advertise themselves as "validation and data gathering" when in real-world use they're used for botting, ad farms, spamming engagement etc.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 21, 2026, 1:02 AM UTC

himata4113 wrote: post #190

m00dy wrote: post #183

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Sorry, but what you’re saying goes beyond the kind of free expression I would respect. Can you tell us what fraud you believe we’re committing, under what law, and based on what evidence? This blog post clearly shows that Deepwalker can break SynthID, which is a closed-source watermarking system.

I mean it's on your own page: https://deepwalker.xyz/use-cases , while not particulary 'fraud', it's definitely in the grey area of what is allowed and definitely breaks ToS. I guess it would be more accurate to say that it enables fraud. It's the same way proxy companies advertise themselves as "validation and data gathering" when in real-world use they're used for botting, ad farms, spamming engagement etc.

Post by deltoidmaximus » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #65

ericpruitt wrote: post #39

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Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it's not useful. I've already seen posts online that were able to be proven as falsified because someone ran the images through Google for SynthID checks. > How old is photoshop and why is it exempt? For one, it's not developed by Google or OpenAI. The barrier to entry to making realistic but deceptive images with Photoshop is far higher than with AI, and there are al…

So 999 people that are just making an image need to be DRM'ed so that you might catch the 1 person making "realistic but deceptive" images... like this is some kind of special case of ... internet images.