Open-source watermarks-remover strips invisible Unicode, token sampling and C2PA AI marks (20.6k stars)
tom_doerr · x · 2026-09-05
The GitHub project watermarks-remover (guillaumemeyer, 20.6k stars) is a privacy-first app that removes multi-vendor AI provenance marks from text and files, including invisible Unicode, token sampling watermarks and C2PA metadata.
The repo ships benchmarks, skills, Cursor integration, pre-commit hooks and a Claude plugin, raising questions about the robustness of AI content provenance standards.
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