Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
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Google's new AI feature for Google Earth, which allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts, was shut down just one day after its launch. The tool was criticized for enabling the creation of misleading images and deepfakes of real-world locations.
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Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater by a hospital in Gaza. On Thursday, Google's initial resp
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