Google Pulls Earth AI Tool After It Faked A Nuclear Plant In Iran

Google Pulls Earth AI Tool After It Faked A Nuclear Plant In Iran  forbes.com

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

“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.

Security experts say generative tools risk eroding trust in satellite images used to verify conflict damage and incidents

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

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

Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.

An AI researcher demonstrated Google Earth's new feature fabricating crises. He generated images of nuclear plants and refugee situations on real maps. Google stated that all generated images include digital watermarking for identification. The company also mentioned preventing image creation on harmful topics. Protect