Galaxy S24 places a watermark on AI photos, but you can then remove the watermark with AI — what you need to know.
The Galaxy S24 is the latest phone series to bring advanced AI photo editing to the masses. It already happened with the Pixel 8 series and Android 14, and I’m not a big fan of these fake AI photo capabilities. Samsung wanted to get in front of such criticism by announcing that all Galaxy AI-edited photos will show a watermark and metadata information that confirms the photo has been toyed with.
That’s a great idea until you learn that you can remove the watermark completely, as tests with the handset have shown. Even if Samsung fixes the issue with a software update, this visual indicator can still be beat.
I’ve criticized Google’s Magic Editor ever since Google unveiled it last spring. Yes, it’s an amazing feat for generative AI to let you manipulate photos like that, without any Photoshop skills or knowledge. And yes, people have been faking photos since the dawn of photography.
But having AI do it for you in an instant democratizes fakes. In the world we currently live in, this opens the door to significant abuse.
Some people may go beyond changing the weather or moving objects around to pretend the photo of a certain event is as good as they wanted it to be when they snapped the photo.
