Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would

Google has walked back an AI feature that allowed users to generate artificial images inside Google Earth, after a predictable flurry of deepfakes.

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

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

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

<p>Google Earth's AI image generator was rolled back after the internet used it to create realistic scenes of destruction.</p> <p>The post <a

Even with Google’s watermarks and restrictions, a tool that creates believable flyover images is ripe for misuse, as Henk van Ess has already shown.

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Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.