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Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

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Google now lets users remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and songs, but the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA metadata will remain in place to help identify AI content. The toggle is available in Gemini and Google's video editor Flow, with Search support coming soon. Google is also open-sourcing a library called Credentio to help developers add local validation tools to their apps.

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