Comment by manbash
3 days ago
It's nice that they explain the "what" (...it is doing) but not the "why". Who is going to use it and for what reasons?
Also, if it's essentially a sort of metadata, can't the output generated image be replicated (e.g. screenshot) and thus stripped of any such data?
I've heard of journalists using it to try and figure out whether images sent by sources were generated. In their Nano Banana 2 release blogpost, Google mentioned that SynthID has been used ~20 million times, so there's clearly some interest in identifying AI-generated images.