Zipic Accidentally Strips AI Watermarks
yihui_indie · x · 2026-07-14
This shared post discusses an unexpected side effect of Zipic, an image compression tool by an indie developer: compressing ChatGPT-generated images before uploading them to X or Xiaohongshu often removes the "AI generated" watermark.
The author initially thought this was a newly designed feature, but later confirmed it's merely a side effect of the current implementation—a bug, rather than a dedicated watermark removal capability. The key takeaway is that indie devs frequently receive feedback claiming either "the software is broken" or "it magically gained a new feature."
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