… Meanwhile, support for Google’s SynthID watermarks are coming to more AI content generated by OpenAI, Kakao, and ElevenLabs, though Google doesn’t specify what models or content this will apply to. …
… If history is any guide, workarounds for the guardrails that OpenAI has set seem inevitable — especially in the misinformation age. …
… But workarounds seem almost inevitable, if recent history is any guide — as does misinformation with the potential to spread like wildfire. …
… Robust or not, SynthID and C2PA can only detect watermarks if they’ve been added in the first place, and I doubt that many of the open-source models used to generate truly nefarious deepfake content are lining up to adopt these systems. …