
Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public
Google opened its SynthID Detector publicly and says over 180 billion images and videos carry its watermarks.
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Google opened its SynthID Detector publicly and says over 180 billion images and videos carry its watermarks.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text by default in the EU under the AI Act, and leave it off elsewhere.

OpenAI will invisibly watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act.
IdeaLens detects whether a document's ideas came from a human or AI, independent of the prose.

OpenAI will watermark EU ChatGPT text with textGrain but let API customers worldwide turn it off.
A C2PA exclusion flaw lets a signer timestamp nothing, then change the file undetected.
Researcher forged a Google Pixel 10 C2PA content credential with genuine signatures, showing root-level attackers can fake photo provenance.
First systematic robustness benchmark of five local invisible image watermarking methods across 55 transformations finds all are vulnerable, with inpainting and geometric misalignment completely breaking payload…

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro adds a Reference Image mode that cryptographically signs camera sensor pixels to prove photos were not AI-generated or edited.

Apple launched Reference Image, cryptographically signing iPhone 18 Pro photos via Private Cloud Compute to prove image authenticity.

Instagram is mislabeling ordinary edited photos as AI Content while some AI imagery goes unlabeled, repeating a 2024 detection failure.
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