Microsoft Designer and SynthID on how wide a claim reaches
These are the narrowest and the widest scope claims in the record. The narrow one can be applied to a folder of files; the wide one cannot be applied to anything in particular. As of 2026-09-12.
| Point | Microsoft Designer | Google SynthID |
|---|---|---|
| How wide the claim is | Images created with the named editing features | Across the vendor's generative consumer products |
| What a reader can do with it | Sort their own files by which feature made them | Little; no products or versions are named |
| What is outside it | Everything else, and known to be outside | Unknown |
Inclusion rule. Two entries whose published answers to one column pull in different directions. Cells hold each vendor's own wording from the page its entry names; pairs that agree on the column are not filed at all. Order. Fixed order, and the two columns are in the order the heading gives them.
1A boundary you can apply beats a boundary you cannot
Somebody holding a folder of assets can ask which came out of a named feature and get an answer. Nobody can ask which of their files came from the vendor's generative consumer products as a class.
That is not a failure of the wider claim. A layer applied beneath several products is the right shape for a duty addressed to whoever builds systems, and it is the wrong shape for sorting a delivery folder.
2Breadth is harder to verify from outside
A narrow claim can be tested by making a file with that feature and looking. A claim about a family of products cannot be tested at all without knowing which products and which versions are in scope.
Both pages are honest. One is honest about what it does not cover; the other is honest about covering a great deal and vague about where the edges are.
3Both are provider-side answers
Neither entry describes anything a viewer can see. Both disclosure rows record that nothing visible is described, which is the standard shape for entries whose answer is a signal or a manifest.
A publisher therefore gets the same thing from both: possible evidence about what a file contains, and no help at all with telling an audience anything.
- Microsoft Designer (microsoft.com)Content credentials, provenance based on the C2PA standard, are applied to all images created with the editing featuresan image generation and editing tool
- SynthIDAn invisible watermark is embedded across Google's generative AI consumer products, added at the moment content is createdthe marking layer behind Google's video models
4Sources
Read from the support FAQ at support.microsoft.com and the SynthID page at deepmind.google, consulted 2026-09-22 and 2026-09-12. Full entries: Microsoft Designer and Google SynthID. The column itself is on The fourth row. Other pairs on file: ElevenLabs and Sora, SynthID and SceneMixer.