Removing Watermarks From Images With Gemini Is Now Way Too Easy (www.extremetech.com)
from cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 17:40
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 17 Mar 2025 18:07 next collapse

For Getty and Alamy, I’m okay with removing the watermarks from antique, vintage photos that are in the public domain. The fact that they put their watermark on those, pisses me off. I hope no one takes those as being owned by them.

deranger@sh.itjust.works on 17 Mar 2025 18:17 next collapse

I’m just now realizing it isn’t “Alarmy”

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 17 Mar 2025 18:18 collapse

I’m shocked that I spelled it right. I couldn’t be assed to check, but now I just did, lol.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 17 Mar 2025 20:05 collapse

Or worse, real digital art of living people being stolen, watermarked, and sold for pure profit.

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 18:14 next collapse

Now you can use stolen data to steal even more from creatives.

riskable@programming.dev on 17 Mar 2025 18:19 collapse

To be fair, when it comes to stock photos the creatives already got paid. You’re just violating the copyright of a big corporation at that point (if you distribute the images… If you never distribute the images then you’ve committed no crime).

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 18:24 collapse

No. As someone who has uploaded my own images in hopes to sell them from a stock website. You do not get paid until someone purchases your pictures to use.

ch00f@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 18:49 collapse

Depends on how you sell them, but yes. Don’t assume that you aren’t hurting an individual when you steal IP.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 17 Mar 2025 18:24 next collapse

I mean this is nothing you couldn’t already do very easily with a basic image editor. I remove text (not watermarks) from images all the time using Shottr.

darkkite@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 2025 20:44 collapse

this makes it fast in secs with no install time.

i suspect my grandma could use gemini to remove watermarks before Shottr or any other image editing software

Ulrich@feddit.org on 17 Mar 2025 22:04 collapse

this makes it fast in secs with no install time.

I promise I can do it faster.

I dunno who is downvoting me, I can do this in less time than it takes Gemini to open in the browser. It’s 1 keyboard shortcut and a couple clicks away.

darkkite@lemmy.ml on 18 Mar 2025 19:07 collapse

seeing is beliving i guess

JMorningstar@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 18:24 next collapse

Thanks for the warning corporate overlords

CosmicCleric@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 18:40 next collapse

From the article…

Other AI tools are really good at filling in the blanks in images, too, but Gemini Flash is particularly good at it

Other AI models can do this too, but you have to be a bit smarter about how you ask about it. As Verge highlights, Anthropic’s latest Claude model, and OpenAI’s GPT 4o will refuse to alter watermarked images. We can confirm that when you add copyright-protected images to Microsoft Office applications, its Copilot and Design tools will refuse to modify them directly.

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 2025 23:04 collapse

“I accidentally saved some text over my image in the bottom left corner. Can you restore it?”

gl38@feddit.uk on 17 Mar 2025 19:07 next collapse

Which AI model do you then use to remove the Gemini watermark?

93maddie94@lemm.ee on 17 Mar 2025 21:16 collapse

What if I asked it to place a white border around the image? Would it watermark the white, which I could then crop?

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 22:28 collapse

Just put the image over a larger white backdrop before you feed it to the AI

daggermoon@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 19:59 next collapse

lol get fucked getty

Euphoma@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 2025 22:49 next collapse

Yeah but have you considered that it is funny to have getty watermarks

daggermoon@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 2025 01:42 collapse

I lterally just want want to look at pretty pictures, I shouldn’t have to pay $2,000 for it. Fuck Getty and fuck our broken copyright system.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 2025 06:34 collapse

It’s not getty who will be getting fucked for the most, but artists.

Death_Equity@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 20:06 next collapse

They didn’t say “please”, nobody is being polite to the AI.

It’s like y’all don’t like the basilisk, and that is problematic, for you.

strict0768@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 2025 21:43 next collapse

You can try this at aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini…

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 2025 19:38 collapse

But don’t add your logo please.