谷歌现允许用户移除其AI生成内容上的可见水印

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations | TechCrunch

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Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Google announced on Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this wont affect the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA standard-related metadata.

Josh Woodward, the companys VP for Gemini, said in a post on X that this toggle will be available for Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. He specified that the setting to turn the visible watermark off will be available in Gemini and Googles video editor, Flow, with support for Search coming soon.

The change reflects an evolving approach to labeling AI-generated media, as visible watermarks can often make content less useful for professional and creative work, but the need to identify AI-generated content remains.

We’re striking a balance here between creative control and safety: while the visible watermarks are now optional, invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata are still being used for transparency. So you can still use Gemini or Search to see if an image was AI-generated, he wrote.

The feature is rolling out in the coming days, and once available, users will be able to go to Settings > Media Watermark to turn the visible mark on or off.

Google is also open sourcing a new library called Credentio to let developers embed a local validation mechanism in their apps.

This comes after Anthropics hotly debated move to include a watermark in text and files generated by Claude to comply with EU regulations.

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