Gemini · Google · OpenAI · Meta · The Verge
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
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Google will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.
Key facts
- Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata embedded in the background, according to Josh Woodward, the vice president
- Instead, OpenAI relies on SynthID and C2PA to signal whether something is AI-generated, while Meta launched its own Content Seal standard
- Google will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music
- Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools
Summary
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. When toggled off, Google will remove the “sparkle” watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company’s Nano Banana and Omni models. While this change might make it more difficult to quickly discern if an image or video is AI-generated, many users have already been editing out visible watermarks. Google plans on rolling out its new watermark setting to Search as well, but the toggle won’t launch in countries that require visible watermarks.