{"id":10407,"date":"2024-02-16T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:29:42","slug":"google-adds-ultrasonic-watermarks-to-ai-generated-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10407","title":{"rendered":"Google adds watermarks to AI generated audio and images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AI generated audio created using Google DeepMind\u2019s AI Lyria model, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/16\/23963570\/youtube-generative-ai-dream-track-music-tools-voice-clone\">YouTube\u2019s new audio generation features<\/a>, will be watermarked with <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/technologies\/synthid\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/technologies\/synthid\/\">SynthID<\/a> to let people identify it was AI-generated. Google says the watermark shouldn\u2019t be detectable by the human ear and it should still be detectable even if an audio track is compressed, sped up or down, or has extra noise added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SynthID also works on images and is supposed to be detectable even after modifications like adding filters, changing colors, and saving with various lossy compression schemes like JPEGs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is part of the new presidential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/10\/30\/23914507\/biden-ai-executive-order-regulation-standards\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/10\/30\/23914507\/biden-ai-executive-order-regulation-standards\">executive order surrounding AI generated content that was issued back in Oct 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-SkjHQl1Dw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/10\/30\/23914507\/biden-ai-executive-order-regulation-standards\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/10\/30\/23914507\/biden-ai-executive-order-regulation-standards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI generated audio created using Google DeepMind\u2019s AI Lyria model, or\u00a0YouTube\u2019s new audio generation features, will be watermarked with SynthID to let people identify it was AI-generated. Google says the watermark shouldn\u2019t be detectable by the human ear and it should still be detectable even if an audio track is compressed, sped up or down, or has extra noise added. SynthID also works on images and is supposed to be detectable even after modifications like adding filters, changing colors, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10407\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2HR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10734,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions\/10734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}