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Has Google’s AI watermarking system been reverse-engineered?

2026-04-14 · The Verge

Google's supposedly tamper-proof AI image watermarking system (SynthID) may have been reverse-engineered by a developer who claims to have figured out how to strip the watermarks or forge them. Google disputes the claim, but the open-sourced proof-of-concept just landed on GitHub—so much for AI safety theater.

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