Google Makes Visible Watermarks Optional Across Nano Banana and Omni Models

Google is preparing an update that will let users remove visible watermarks from AI‑generated images, videos, and audio produced by its models. The toggle will work across Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria and will appear in a new Media Watermark section inside Gemini and the Flow video editor, with Search support coming later. Even though the visible marker can be switched off, Google is keeping invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata as mandatory provenance layers. The company frames the change as a practical balance between delivering clean, usable assets and maintaining transparency around AI‑generated content. To support broader verification, Google is also open sourcing a new library called Credentio, enabling local authentication inside apps. The update lands at a moment when the industry is actively debating standards for AI provenance, including Anthropic’s recent regulatory‑driven watermarking approach in the EU.

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