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People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images


People appear to be using Google's new Gemini model to remove watermarks from images, according to reports on social media.

Gemini 2.0 Flash will uncomplainingly create images depicting celebrities and copyrighted characters, and — as alluded to earlier — remove watermarks from existing photos. To be clear, Gemini 2.0 Flash’s image generation feature is labeled as “experimental” and “not for production use” at the moment, and is only available in Google’s developer-facing tools like AI Studio. Removing a watermark without the original owner’s consent is considered illegal under U.S. copyright law (according to ) outside of rare exceptions.

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