docs: scope SynthID provenance claims to source-verified facts

Threat model: replace the unverified deployment list (Gemini 3 Pro /
Nano Banana Pro / Imagen 4 / Veo) with the source-verified scope -- SynthID
across Imagen / Veo / Lyria plus Gemini app outputs (>10B items by Dec 2025),
and attribute the 136-bit payload to the paper's SynthID-O variant.

openai-images-2 sample: note the file predates the 19 May 2026 SynthID
rollout across ChatGPT / Codex / API, and that openai.com/verify is now the
public oracle (still no local decoder).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This tool defends already-distributed AI imagery against automatic detection systems (social-platform "Made with AI" labels, third-party classifiers, content-policy filters). It does **not** retroactively anonymise generation.
In particular, **SynthID-Image** (Google, deployed 2025 with Gemini 3 Pro / Nano Banana Pro / Imagen 4 / Veo) carries a **multi-bit payload** — the paper's SynthID-O variant encodes 136-bit payloads in 512x512 images ([arxiv 2510.09263](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09263)). The payload is believed to encode a user / session identifier. If the original watermarked file ever passed through a system controlled by the prompt originator (a saved Gemini account history, a screenshot uploaded to a Google product, a backup), Google retains the ability to link that original to the generating account. Stripping the watermark from a copy you possess does not erase Google's server-side record.
In particular, **SynthID** (Google DeepMind) is embedded across Google's generative media stack — Imagen (images), Veo (video), Lyria (audio) — and Gemini app image outputs (Nano Banana / Gemini 3 Pro, which we verified positive via the Gemini app's SynthID oracle); Google reported over 10 billion items watermarked by December 2025. It carries a **multi-bit payload** — the research paper's SynthID-O variant encodes 136-bit payloads in 512x512 images ([arxiv 2510.09263](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09263)). The payload is believed to encode a user / session identifier. If the original watermarked file ever passed through a system controlled by the prompt originator (a saved Gemini account history, a screenshot uploaded to a Google product, a backup), Google retains the ability to link that original to the generating account. Stripping the watermark from a copy you possess does not erase Google's server-side record.
Use cases where the threat model fits:
- You generated the image yourself, want to publish it as your own work, and accept the consequences if Google ever publishes their detector logs.
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### Invisible pixel-level watermark
OpenAI's system card for Images 2.0 states the model embeds an "imperceptible, robust, and content-specific" pixel-level watermark alongside C2PA. No public detector exists, so bypass cannot be verified empirically for this sample.
OpenAI's system card for Images 2.0 states the model embeds an "imperceptible, robust, and content-specific" pixel-level watermark alongside C2PA. This sample was downloaded 2026-04-22, before OpenAI's 19 May 2026 rollout of Google's SynthID watermark across ChatGPT / Codex / the API, so it likely predates SynthID and carries only the original content-specific watermark. Since that rollout, the openai.com/verify tool (in preview) is the public oracle for both signals; there is still no local decoder, so bypass cannot be verified empirically here without the oracle.
## Reproducing the removal