Google's Circle to Search feature can tell you if an image was AI-generated

Key points

• As Google introduces new models and tools for generating AI content, it's also making it a little bit easier for people to answer the question "was this created with AI?" The company is expanding its AI detection system SynthID so features like Circle to Search and Lens will be able to identify AI-generated and AI-edited images.
• SynthID is Google's homegrown watermarking system that appends invisible metadata to content created or modified with its own AI tools.
• Last year at I/O, the company debuted a dedicated SynthID detector and later integrated the feature into the Gemini app.
• Now, Google is expanding those AI detection capabilities to Google Chrome and Search too.
• With the update, users will be able to use SynthID to assess an image's origin through a number of methods.