Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash brings photo manipulation into the AI chatbot era, promising to change how we alter images—for better or worse.

Adobe Photoshop barely needs an introduction – its become so popular and so ubiquitous, its name has become synonymous with graphics editing in the same way Google has become a generic term for searching the web.

Google’s newest AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is exceptionally good at removing watermarks from copyrighted images including , according to multiple users. However, AI watermark removal does raise copyright concerns.

The speedy progress of AI development continues to dominate headlines, but the latest story to hit the news cycle is more bad press than good press: It turns out that Google's latest Gemini 2.0 Flash image editor is rather adept at automatically removing watermarks from images.

Users on social media recently discovered a controversial feature in Google’s Gemini AI model: the ability to remove watermarks from images, including those from major stock image providers like Getty Images.