From deepfakes to DNA: the science of watermarking AI
Summary
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 tech
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Transcript Excerpt
Welcome back to Google DeepMind, the podcast. I'm Professor Hannah Fry. Picture the scene You are scrolling through your socials and you see some remarkable footage, the up close, slow motion eruption of a volcano or a tornado raging through a village, or perhaps some footage of a protest. I think many of us ask the same question, is that real? Was this made by a human or a machine? Well as AI gets better at generating text and images and audio and video, that is becoming one of the most challenging questions of our time. Except that now the answer just got a lot more complicated. We are entering a world where AI can design biological molecules and structures that have never existed in nature before, some of which could be designed to cause harm. So how do you stop something dangerous befo…