Google Egypt has extended its commitment to Egypt to support the country’s digital transformation by launching a US$9 million worth technological training programme to assist local businesses. In a move to counter misinformation, Google has unveiled a digital watermark system designed to detect images produced by artificial intelligence (AI). This watermarking tool, named SynthID, is a brainchild of DeepMind, Google’s AI subsidiary. The SynthID watermark alters individual pixels in such a manner that while it remains undetectable to human eyes, computers can easily identify it.

Despite its innovative design, DeepMind acknowledges that SynthID isn’t completely immune to intensive image manipulations. Click here to read the article