- SynthID watermarking lets Google recognize AI-generated music.
- Right now you can upload recordings to Gemini for SynthID analysis.
- Upcoming changes to song search in the Google app may support on-device SynthID detection for music.
Generative AI can help even the least musically inclined of us create songs, like with Google’s own Lyria 3-based song-creation tool for Gemini. Understandably, there’s growing concern among music fans that it’s going to be tough to tell when something we’re listening to is an original, human composition and performance, or an AI creation. Just like it does with images, Google labels its AI-generated music with SynthID watermarks, so that even if our ears can’t tell the difference, AI songs can still be detected for what they are. Today we’re checking out a convenient new way that Google may soon support SynthID checks for music.
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Right now, Gemini supports scanning media like images, video, and audio files for SynthID watermarks. But in order to analyze them, you’ve got to upload those files to Gemini. And while that works fine, it’s also a bit of a process — first making a recording, then getting it into Gemini and uploading it.
