The company specified that this won’t affect the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA standard-related metadata. Josh Woodward, the company’s 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 Google’s 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. 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 Anthropic’s hotly debated move to include a watermark in text and files generated by Claude to comply with EU regulations.
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