Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by generative AI models, generally available. SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit.

Researchers at Google DeepMind in London have devised a ‘watermark’ to invisibly label text that is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) — and deployed it to millions of chatbot users.

Developers can now use Google’s SynthID Text technology to determine whether text was made by their own AI models.

Digital threat actors keep coming up with new tricks to target you over text. Luckily, Google is evolving its security tools, too.

Google's latest round of updates seeks to protect Android users from those fake package delivery and job-offer scams, among other problems.

Google just announced a spate of safety features coming to Messages. There’s enhanced scam detection centered around texts that could lead to fraud. The company says the update provides “improved analysis of scammy texts.

A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son's suicide in February, saying he became addicted to the company's service and deeply attached to a chatbot it created.

A lawsuit claims that Character.AI’s founders launched a dangerous product that it advertised as safe for use by kids without warning them or their parents of possible risks.

A lawsuit against Character.ai has been filed in the suicide death of a Florida teenager who allegedly became emotionally attached to a Game of Thrones chatbot.