Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations

Users shared images that appeared to violate the company’s policies.

Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations  Reuters

July 31 : Alphabet's Google said on Friday it was rolling back an AI image-generation feature it had introduced in Google Earth just a day ago, after users shared images that appeared to violate the company's policies.The feature, powered by Google's Nano Banana 2 AI model, had allowed users to generate photorealistic

Google rolled back a new feature on Friday that allowed Google Earth users to generate AI visualisations on top of the service’s satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts about the potential for disinformation. “We’ve seen geospatial professionals using this f

Google Earth's AI editing tool created a kaiju attacking Downtown Los Angeles. Google Earth AI Google pulled its AI image-editing tool from Google Earth in less than 24 hours after launch. AI researchers created deepfakes using Google's tool, raising concerns about misinformation. Users have posted deepfake satellite

Google Earth’s AI image generator let me put my dream home in Central Park, but other potential uses aren’t so innocent.

People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google responded to Digital Digging's AI-alt

AI image generation comes to Google Earth as Google adds Nano Banana to its mapping platform.