ChatGPT will use AI to watermark your photos if you do not pay.
Even though there are many tools for creating images, most of them have a daily cap on the number of images they can create.
One could contend that the primary function of these AI models and a source of income for these tech companies has shifted to the production of images.
While ChatGPT does not have watermarks, Grok and other AI models that are currently available for use in image generation do.
Watermarks have always been a feature of free video or photography apps, but they have also consistently offered paid alternatives without them.
As engineer Tibor Blaho discovered, it looks like ChatGPT might eventually add watermarks to AI-generated images, but only with free accounts.
Watermarks have been used in OpenAI's chatbot in the past. Last year, it tested them for generated text, but it never made it into production.
When Google creates an image with Gemini, it employs a pattern that watermark detection tools can use to determine whether the image was created by AI rather than adding watermarks.
If ChatGPT decides to add watermarks to free accounts, users will not have any issues because they can easily get rid of them.
However, it is unclear whether this will be available to all. For example, some models, such as Grok, include watermarks in the image creation process.