# TechCrunch — Google’s new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media

- Company: TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-07T14:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/googles-new-synthid-website-can-identify-ai-generated-media/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16391-google-s-new-synthid-website-can-identify-ai-generated-media
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Nano Banana, Veo, Lyria, Gemini, Flow, ProducerAI, Vids

Google launched a public website that allows anyone to verify whether an image, video, or audio clip was generated using AI. The tool, SynthID, was previously available only to select journalists and researchers for testing. Google's own models and tools, as well as OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, support SynthID watermarking.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/googles-new-synthid-website-can-identify-ai-generated-media/:

> Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.

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