Google's Gemini AI is great at removing watermarks, maybe too great
- Google expanded access to its Gemini 2.0 Flash model, allowing it to remove watermarks from images, a practice deemed illegal by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- The model's impressive abilities have raised concerns about potential legal actions from companies like Getty Images
- Some tools, including Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet, refuse to remove watermarks, calling it unethical, unlike Gemini 2.0 Flash, which lacks usage restrictions
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Google's new AI model is being used to remove image watermarks
It's bad enough that tech companies trained their AI models on content that doesn't belong to them. Now, however, it appears that at least one AI model is being used to remove watermarks from images so others can use content that doesn't belong to them, too.Social media users have recently discovered that Google's new Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model can be used to remove watermarks from images. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading …
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