From deepfakes to DNA: the science of watermarking AI

How do you know if what you’re seeing is real? Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Pushmeet Kohli (VP of Science) and Jeremy Ratcliffe (Research Scientist) to break down SynthID, the watermarking technology expanding from text, images, and video straight into biology. Learn how invisible, mathematical watermarks help trace AI provenance, protect against misuse, and safeguard protein sequence design without impacting biological function.

Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 What is a watermark?
04:35 SynthID
15:16 Images and video
19:28 SynthID Bio
28:00 Future of resilience

Learn more about SynthID Bio: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/

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