Google lets users strip the visible watermark from its AI images

Why it matters

Gemini users can now remove the visible watermark from AI-generated images, while the invisible SynthID marker stays embedded. Google's position is that machine-readable provenance survives even when the human-readable signal disappears. That only holds if the receiving platform bothers to read it, which moves AI disclosure from something a viewer notices to something only a machine can verify.

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