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/ ___ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/