DeepMind's CTO Koray Koviçoğlu describes an invisible watermark embedded in every video created or edited by their Omni platform. Users can detect it through Android, Chrome, or Gemini to verify whether media is AI-generated, addressing concerns about synthetic content becoming indistinguishable from reality.
So I actually like and use AI every day, but even I have to admit that AI images and videos are getting so realistic it's a little bit scary. Like, I don't want to live in a world where I can never tell what's real or not anymore. I think that can actually be pretty damaging in a lot of ways. So I got to ask Koray Kovičoğlu, the CTO of Google DeepMind, point blank what they're doing about this massive issue. Every video that is—
that you create or edit with Omni has this this digital watermarking with that. If you are using an Android phone or Chrome browser, you can even do circle to search, or you can just go to Gemini app and say, is this video AI or non-AI? And it will tell you that this is an AI-generated video. That is important. People need to know. Like, it is great to be able to get help, but then, of course, like, people should feel like they can actually get to the root of the information. That is very important. It's about building the technology and finding the ways people feel safe and in control.
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