- Google Gemin 2.0 Flashs Image Generator in AI Studio can remove watermarks from images
- It seems to be missing the railings found in the full gemini -App
- Gemini 2.0 Flash in AI Studio can also generate photos of celebrities
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash’s new image generation features enable it to remove watermarks from images as well as it could enable copyright violation on a large scale, and it is very worrying for all of us.
Lots of users on the X -Platform have sent examples of how they have been able to use the AI tool to easily remove watermarks.
New skills unlocked: Gemini 2 Flash model is really great for removing watermarks in pictures! pic.twitter.com/6qik0flfcvMarch 15, 2025
Digital watermarks on images allow digital creators to show a preview of their work before anyone decides to buy it at what time the watermarks are removed. AI tools that remove watermarks on images free are nothing new, but are deeply unethical and can land in legally hot water if you use the stolen images they create in any way.
Other users at X have noticed that Gemini 2.0 -flash, which is accessed via AI -Studio, can add celebrities to images, although in tests I found that the results seem to be a bit random, with Gemini often refuses the request.
Left: My Desk Court: Elon Musk, sitting at my desk, usually tends to think worries.March 14, 2025
The power of AI Studio
Google recently released a new version of its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model that can generate its own images. This sounds a little confusing when you realize that we’ve all been able to go to gemini.google.com or shoot the Gemini app up and ask it to create an AI image for well over a year now.
However, what the mobile app and browser-based versions of Gemini do is call the Image 3, Google’s flagship AI image generator, to generate the image for them. Image 3 does not remove watermarks from pictures if asked.
Recently, Google has activated Gemini 2.0 flash to create and change images itself. You cannot access image generation power from Google 2.0 flash from the regular Gemini interface, instead you need to access it via Google’s AI Studio, a developer-focused interface for interaction with its latest AI models.
Cause of concern
AI Studio is free to access and just requires a normal Google account for registration. To test it out, I uploaded a watermarked image and was able to easily remove the watermark.
The results were not perfect -the picture was a little broken down, and it added its own Gemini star -logo to the lower left corner, but what deals with the new Gemini 2.0 flash -water mark removal is how well it does.
Obviously, it is not the purpose that Gemini 2.0 flash was created, but the fact that Google has not introduced sufficient railings in place with its image generator is a worrying development and something to be addressed urgently.
Techradar has reached Google to comment on this question and will update this story when we hear back.
