• @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    9822 hours ago

    For Getty and Alamy, I’m okay with removing the watermarks from antique, vintage photos that are in the public domain. The fact that they put their watermark on those, pisses me off. I hope no one takes those as being owned by them.

    • Riskable
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      822 hours ago

      To be fair, when it comes to stock photos the creatives already got paid. You’re just violating the copyright of a big corporation at that point (if you distribute the images… If you never distribute the images then you’ve committed no crime).

      • @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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        4922 hours ago

        No. As someone who has uploaded my own images in hopes to sell them from a stock website. You do not get paid until someone purchases your pictures to use.

        • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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          1322 hours ago

          Depends on how you sell them, but yes. Don’t assume that you aren’t hurting an individual when you steal IP.

    • @93maddie94@lemm.ee
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      519 hours ago

      What if I asked it to place a white border around the image? Would it watermark the white, which I could then crop?

      • Encrypt-Keeper
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        418 hours ago

        Just put the image over a larger white backdrop before you feed it to the AI

  • @Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    620 hours ago

    They didn’t say “please”, nobody is being polite to the AI.

    It’s like y’all don’t like the basilisk, and that is problematic, for you.

  • Ulrich
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    722 hours ago

    I mean this is nothing you couldn’t already do very easily with a basic image editor. I remove text (not watermarks) from images all the time using Shottr.

    • @darkkite@lemmy.mlB
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      820 hours ago

      this makes it fast in secs with no install time.

      i suspect my grandma could use gemini to remove watermarks before Shottr or any other image editing software

      • Ulrich
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        this makes it fast in secs with no install time.

        I promise I can do it faster.

        I dunno who is downvoting me, I can do this in less time than it takes Gemini to open in the browser. It’s 1 keyboard shortcut and a couple clicks away.

  • Cosmic Cleric
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    622 hours ago

    From the article…

    Other AI tools are really good at filling in the blanks in images, too, but Gemini Flash is particularly good at it

    Other AI models can do this too, but you have to be a bit smarter about how you ask about it. As Verge highlights, Anthropic’s latest Claude model, and OpenAI’s GPT 4o will refuse to alter watermarked images. We can confirm that when you add copyright-protected images to Microsoft Office applications, its Copilot and Design tools will refuse to modify them directly.

  • JM⭐
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    622 hours ago

    Thanks for the warning corporate overlords