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Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

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Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

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This is a bit misleading as for Gemini it only properly removes the visible watermark. To remove SynthID it has to regenerate the image at low noise with SDXL, which will likely destroy a lot of small details, plus won't work for higher res properly (NB2 and GPT Image 2 support up to 4K image outputs)

Nano Banana 2 only supports 1K resolution (1024x1024) natively. Anything above that is upscaling. So this matches SDXL. GPT Image 2 does support 4k natively (but experimentally).

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

#12
post #7

There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (note that the counter of "well, they don't do that yet " is not particularly convincing) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200060

Building a tool that tries (and probably fails) to remove the watermark (due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win) is tacitly accepting the barcode. The hacker ethos should be, first and foremost, to run open source models locally without relying on a corporation.

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

#13
post #10

I don't know I really like the definitive indicator that something is AI so I can completely ignore anything else that comes from them.

I think the issue is it was never definitive. This is a great way to show people that.

I have not read anyone claim that SynthID had a false alarm issue, so if it returned positive I would believe it is synthetic.

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

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post #12
post #7

There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (note that the counter of "well, they don't do that yet " is not particularly convincing) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200060

Building a tool that tries (and probably fails) to remove the watermark (due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win) is tacitly accepting the barcode. The hacker ethos should be, first and foremost, to run open source models locally without relying on a corporation.

> [fighting against the system] is tacitly accepting the barcode.

I don't really see it. I think it's important to win on both fronts.

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

#15

I don't know I really like the definitive indicator that something is AI so I can completely ignore anything else that comes from them.

If someone's doing something you don't like, you can't really count on them doing it the way you prefer.

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

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post #11
post #3

This is a bit misleading as for Gemini it only properly removes the visible watermark. To remove SynthID it has to regenerate the image at low noise with SDXL, which will likely destroy a lot of small details, plus won't work for higher res properly (NB2 and GPT Image 2 support up to 4K image outputs)

Nano Banana 2 only supports 1K resolution (1024x1024) natively. Anything above that is upscaling. So this matches SDXL. GPT Image 2 does support 4k natively (but experimentally).

Where did you get that info from? According to Google's own docs as well as my own image generation tests via the API, it supports up to 4K natively for gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (aka NB2).

It just defaults to 1K. But I didn't see anything in the docs stating that it's just a simple upscale for larger resolutions.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/image-generation#gener...

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

#17
post #7

There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (note that the counter of "well, they don't do that yet " is not particularly convincing) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200060

Accepting blindly destroying the concept of thruth should not be the hacker ethos either.

Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

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post #17
post #7

There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (note that the counter of "well, they don't do that yet " is not particularly convincing) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200060

Accepting blindly destroying the concept of thruth should not be the hacker ethos either.

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Re: Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

#20
post #17
post #7

There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (note that the counter of "well, they don't do that yet " is not particularly convincing) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200060

Accepting blindly destroying the concept of thruth should not be the hacker ethos either.

Nobody said that?
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