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Google Gemini AI lets you create images, solve complex problems but it is also helping people remove watermark from owned/licensed images.
The Gemini 2 Flash AI model is the culprit for this big lapse
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 watermark from copyright images, making it easily usable for the user. Removing the watermark is a big red flag, and the fact that Google’s AI model is doing it makes it even more worrying. The AI model in question is the Gemini 2 Flash which is doing this unethical act with a simple text prompt.
AI Watermark Headache For Google
Many people have shared their experience of using the Gemini 2 Flash AI model to remove the watermark which has been reported to Google. The new Gemini AI model offers its service in experimental mode but the company surely needs better guardrails to stop the AI model from accepting these kinds of prompts in images.
It is even more puzzling to see a Google AI model making this lapse, when other models from Anthropic and OpenAI have strict guidelines to block such requests.
Google does say that using its AI tools to engage in these practices violates its terms of service but the company should adhere to its own policies and strengthen its back-end support to avoid these prompts from being executed in the first place.
Google had its own set of AI issues, which includes the problem caused by its AI image generation tool for people. The company was even forced to apologise for the mistakes and release it earlier this month with major changes to its process.
The company also introduced the Gemma 3 family of AI models that offer text and visual reasoning capabilities and are the successor to the Gemma 2 series, which debuted in August 2024. The Gemma series is claimed to be known for its on-device performance and open-source nature. Google disclosed that the Gemma models have been used to develop over 60,000 variants and have been downloaded over 100 million times so far.
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