Google's Gemini app will soon be able to detect images created by Google's artificial intelligence (Google AI).
Google is making it easier for users to detect at least some AI-generated. Starting today, the app can determine whether an image was created or edited by one of Google’s AI tools. All users need to do is ask Gemini: “Is this image AI-generated?”
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Gemini: AI content detection
While the initial rollout is limited to images, Google says video and audio is coming “soon.” It also plans to expand the functionality beyond the Gemini app, including Search.
The most significant expansion will come later, when Google expands verification to support industry-wide C2PA content credentials . The initial image verification relies only on SynthID , its own invisible AI watermarking, but an expansion to C2PA would make it possible to trace the source of content generated by a wider variety of AI tools and creative software (including OpenAI’s Sora )
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Google also announced that images created by the Nano Banana Pro, also unveiled today, will have C2PA metadata embedded. It's the second piece of good news for C2PA this week, following TikTok's confirmation that it will use C2PA metadata as part of its own invisible watermarking for AI-generated content.
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Manually verifying content in Gemini is a useful step, but C2PA credentials and other watermarks like SynthID won't be truly useful until social media platforms get better at automatically flagging AI-generated content (rather than putting the burden on users to verify it themselves).
