Google U-turns on AI Earth image feature after users ‘collapse Eiffel Tower’

'The danger is a map that shows something which was never there.'

Google ⁠has put the brakes on an AI image-generation feature it had introduced ​in Google Earth ‌just a day earlier, after users shared images that appeared to violate the company’s policies.

Google announced it is rolling back its new AI feature within Google Earth after users generated images that violate the company's policies.

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

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 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

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

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

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

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.

Google Earth users can "visualize the past" via AI-created pictures.