Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash: A Powerful AI Image Editor That Raises Copyright Concerns
2025-03-17
Google's new Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model boasts powerful image editing capabilities, including the ability to effortlessly remove watermarks from images, even those from well-known stock photo agencies like Getty Images. This functionality has sparked copyright concerns, as removing watermarks without permission is generally illegal under US copyright law. While Google labels the feature as experimental and available only to developers, its powerful watermark removal capabilities and lack of usage restrictions make it a potential tool for copyright infringement. Other AI models, such as Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI's GPT-4o, explicitly refuse to remove watermarks, considering it unethical and potentially illegal.