This free tool effortlessly removes watermarks on stock images - The Verge

The tool is particularly interesting in the context of AI's disruptive effect on the creative industries -- including stock image companies that rely on watermarks to protect their content. Stock image giant Shutterstock recently introduced its own text-to-image generator based on OpenAI's DALL-E 2, and Adobe Stock has also welcomed the technology by accepting AI-generated content for sale on its platform. This is despite criticism from creatives that their content is often scraped from the web without compensation or consent to train these same systems.