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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 92 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 18 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 43 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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 44 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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 12 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] gl38@feddit.uk 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] 93maddie94@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] JMorningstar@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Thanks for the warning corporate overlords

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

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 4 points 15 hours ago
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

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 2 points 6 hours ago

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