It's bad enough that tech companies trained their AI models on content that doesn't belong to them. Now, however, it appears that at least one AI model is being used to remove watermarks from images so others can use content that doesn't belong to them,

Tools like Watermark Remover.io can already scrub marks from companies like Shutterstock, and a research team at Google built a watermark removal algorithm in 2017 to highlight the need for more secure protections. Conversely, some AI tools — like OpenAI’s GPT-4o — will refuse requests to remove them.

As if AI wasn't enough hot water for pirating content for their training, Google's Gemini might get into more trouble before too long. Users of the latest Gemini Flash AI update have found that it's particularly adept at filling in the gaps in pictures.