Story continues below this ad The purported lack of usage restrictions and removal of watermarks without consent could spur further legal action by copyright holders. To be sure, access to Gemini 2.0 ...

The advent of free AI image generation tools has come with a major copyright issue for creators and Google’s new AI model is adding to their concerns. The new Gemini AI model is able to remove ...

Claude calls removing a watermark from an image “unethical and potentially illegal.” Removing a watermark without the original owner’s consent is considered illegal under U.S. copyright law ...

Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google's new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published by Getty Images and other well-known ...

Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google's new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published by Getty Images and other well ...

Now, before you start celebrating free stock images, there’s a catch. Removing a watermark without permission is illegal in most cases—US copyright law is pretty clear on that. Other AI models ...

But an unexpected use of such image generators is also to remove existing watermarks, such as those by stock image repositories. And the Google Gemini 2.0 Flash is apparently pretty good at that.

This newfound skill of the generative AI model is now unlocked for all users, and they can easily upload an image with watermarks and wait for Gemini to return it without any tags or marks over it.

Trying to do so returns a message like this: “Removing watermarks from images without the explicit permission of the copyright holder is illegal in most countries. It is important to respect the ...

Gemini 2.0 Flash users are using the model to remove watermarks from images. The model will even try to fill in gaps created by the watermark. Gemini 2.0 Flash’s image generation feature is ...