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- Google Photos will start watermarking images edited with Magic Editor’s Reimagine tool starting this week.
- It will use Google DeepMind’s SynthID tech to label edited images.
- Users will be able to view the SynthID watermark using the “About this image” feature in Search or Chrome.
Magic Editor on the Pixel 9 series offers a useful AI-powered editing feature that essentially lets you recreate sections of an image using a descriptive prompt. You can use the Reimagine tool to select parts of a photo and either add or subtract elements by describing what you want to see in the final image. It’s an easy way for users to make stellar edits without professional know-how, and the resulting images can look pretty realistic.
Since the tool lets you recreate large parts of an image, Google wants to ensure that others can easily tell that the resulting image is AI-generated. To that end, the company plans to use SynthID to mark images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor starting this week.