Google forced to roll back new AI tool just hours after launch

The tool drew alarm almost immediately, as experts warned about the risks of tampering with satellite imagery

GOOGLE has rolled back its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that allowed people to create fake scenarios on top of real-life satellite imagery after it faced criticism for potentially spreading misinformation ...

The "create image" tool had integrated Google's Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology into Google Earth, letting users zoom into locations and build pictures based on the program's satellite and 3D-mapping data

Furious researchers and open-source intelligence experts complained about the potential for disinformation.

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

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