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TL;DR
- OpenAI might be exploring picture watermarking for ChatGPT-generated pictures.
- Earlier leak suggests the watermark would possibly primarily have an effect on free customers, with a “save with out watermark” choice for some.
- This characteristic is just not but official and could also be topic to alter earlier than public launch.
OpenAI is engaged on a whole lot of new options for ChatGPT. We’ve noticed options like Examine Collectively, Picture Types, and even a yearly plan within the works. Persevering with the spree, we’ve now discovered code that signifies ChatGPT might be seeking to watermark the photographs it generates, although some customers might get the choice to save lots of generated pictures with out the watermark.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s potential that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
Again in April 2025, Tibor Blaho on X noticed {that a} new ImageGen watermark was within the works inside ChatGPT. The app’s strings talked about the watermark as “image-gen-watermark-for-free,” indicating that it might solely be coming to ChatGPT’s free customers.
The most recent ChatGPT v1.2025.196 beta consists of code that permits a “Save with out watermark” choice when producing pictures. We managed to activate the characteristic to provide you an early look:
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As you may see within the screenshots above, ChatGPT will current the standard choices for customers on generated pictures, specifically Edit, Choose, Save, and Share. When the characteristic goes reside, tapping the three-dot menu will reveal a Save with out watermark choice. We activated the characteristic on the free tier of ChatGPT, however that might be due to its in-development nature.
Constructing upon the earlier leak, it might be that the watermark is utilized to all ChatGPT-generated pictures. Nonetheless, paid subscribers might have the choice to save lots of the picture with out a watermark if they need. There’s additionally an opportunity that every one generated pictures might have a watermark, and all customers might have the choice to save lots of with out a watermark, however the course of circulation would add sufficient friction to dissuade the informal consumer.
ChatGPT hasn’t introduced this characteristic, so there’s nonetheless an opportunity they might scrap the concept of watermarking pictures, or change different features of it. We’ll hold you up to date once we study extra.
