Watermark Remover.io uses AI to erase the watermarks used by stock image companies on copyrighted images in seconds, with little to no artifacts remaining.

In that case, stock photo companies, which watermark millions of photos for image previews, seemed to be at particular risk. Recommended Videos.

It did the same thing with images from Shutterstock, Istock, ... Gemini 2.0 Flash appears to struggle with certain semi-transparent watermarks and watermarks that canvas large portions of images.

Stock photos have watermarks to make sure that you don't use them without paying for them. Removing them used to take some Photoshop know-how, but Google found a way to remove them automatically.

The issue, as Google explains it, is that most stock photo companies apply the same watermark to their entire image library. Feed enough images—fewer than 1,000 in this case—into a neural ...

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