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Google debuts SynthID Detector tool for flagging AI-generated content, but it’s far from perfect

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Google LLC is making its SynthID identification tools for artificial intelligence-created and AI-edited videos and images more widely available with the launch of a new service today that everyone can use.

The web-based SynthID Detector can identify images, video and audio clips that have been created using AI models from Google, OpenAI Group PBC, Nvidia Corp. and Kakao Corp. But in order to use it, people will have to sign in first, using a Google, OpenAI or Apple account. In a few weeks, the tool’s capabilities will be expanded to identify images created using Apple Inc.’s AI tools as well, such as Image Playground.

Google first developed SynthID in 2023. It’s an imperceptible watermark that’s added to AI-generated content created using tools from the above companies, but the only problem is that special tools have always been required to spot it.

Though the company has made different versions of its detection tool available to journalists and other media professionals, availability was severely restricted. Google also offers a few other ways to detect AI-generated content. For instance, there’s its Circle to Search smartphone feature, and users can also upload content to Gemini to ask if it has been created with AI or not. But with the launch of a dedicated detector tool, it’s making these capabilities more accessible,

The downside to SynthID Detector is that it has, well, downsides. For instance, because it’s designed to identify the hidden SynthID watermarks in AI content, it’s not very good at detecting AI-generated content that doesn’t have a SynthID watermark. And there’s a lot of that about.

Anthropic PBC’s Claude doesn’t use SynthID, and neither does xAI Corp.’s Grok chatbot. None of the many open-weights Chinese AI models use SynthID either. So it’s going to miss a lot of AI-generated content regardless.

Another issue with SynthID Detector is that it cannot distinguish between images, video and audio that has been entirely created from scratch or just edited using AI. So in the case of content that has been edited, it won’t be able to reveal which part is fake and which part is real.

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With GPT-6, ChatGPT’s responses are much more visually appealing and interactive

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OpenAI Group PBC says ChatGPT is moving away from its traditional wall-of-text responses and giving users a more interactive user interface to play with.

In a media briefing today, the company said its GPT-6 models will now be able to access an “Intelligent UI” that will allow the chatbot to generate more visual outputs when it deems necessary, replacing words with graphics, tappable buttons, forms and charts” that will provide a much more interactive experience.

ChatGPT will determine for itself when an answer needs a more visually appealing response and interactive elements for the user to explore a topic more deeply. In such instances, the model will integrate these directly with its response.

In an example, OpenAI showed someone asking ChatGPT how to piece together a seven-speed bicycle. Rather than just churning out endless text that explains everything, it instead generated a complete design breakdown, complete with visualizations of each of the main parts and a clickable button that allows readers to learn more about each of them.

In a second example, a user asked ChatGPT to create a plan for a lamb roast with pictures of each dish, plus a recipe that allowed the user to alter the number of guests in order to recalculate the amount of ingredients required.

OpenAI explained that ChatGPT will generate these visualizations from a library of components that the GPT-6 models were pretrained on. For more basic prompts and questions, the chatbot will stick with the old text-only format, but users will have the option to request a more interactive response at any time, and it will reformat the response accordingly.

The goal with this update is to make “learning complex topics easier,” OpenAI Product Manager Aarush Selvan said in the briefing. The intelligence UI may also help to make ChatGPT more accessible and increase its appeal, though Selvan didn’t say this directly.

ChatGPT has predominantly been a text-based interface,” Selvan said. But the company wants to help people get things done, and it believes that “from the everyday things like planning a recipe or a trip or even trying to learn something, the most helpful answers aren’t just text.”

The visual UI is primarily designed to make ChatGPT easier for people to use and retain information, Holger Mueller of Constellation Research told SiliconANGLE. “We’ve long known that usability is one of the primary factors driving adoption of software, and the text-only interface doesn’t really help when people when it comes to information absorption or processing,” the analyst said.

Mueller believes that this is such a significant move by OpenAI that it could signal the opening of a new front in the battle of the AI assistants, especially if Anthropic responds with a similar visual aesthetic in Claude. “Anthropic will be under pressure to respond to this in the next few weeks, or it could even do so in just a few days if something similar was already in the works,” he said. “This could lead to usability and not just the quality of the model and its answers becoming the deciding factor in which chatbots people want to use. If Anthropic fails to respond to this, OpenAI has a very strong differentiator that would likely change many people’s choices once they see it.”

That is assuming that the Intelligent UI works as well as advertised, of course. It’s worth noting that it’s not an entirely original idea. In fact, it’s somewhat reminiscent of Google LLC’s “Generative Interface,” which was introduced with the launch of Gemini 3 last year, although it seems to be a bit more colorful and more graphics-heavy. When Google introduced that feature, there was a lot of excitement around it, but it doesn’t really appear to have differentiated Gemini as a chatbot all that much.

There may be other considerations, too. OpenAI didn’t say if the Intelligent UI would mean higher token consumption, but that does appear to be the case with all of those extra elements being generated, so that’s something users might want to watch out for. It’s also not clear how susceptible these visual elements may be to the problem that plagues every AI chatbot, namely hallucinations.

OpenAI, however, seems to be pushing for AI to become more visually appealing. Earlier this week, the company revealed it would soon introduce the first image-based ads in ChatGPT’s responses. More cynical users might think that the Intelligent UI may make it more difficult to see which responses are ads and which are the chatbots own. Regardless, ads are almost certainly going to become a part of every AI chatbot at some point.

OpenAI said the Intelligent UI is being made available from today for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers, though in the latter case, the workplace administrator will need to enable it. Free users and Go subscribers will get access to it tomorrow.

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