Google rolled back a new feature on Friday that allowed Google Earth users to generate AI visualisations on top of the service\u2019s satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts about the potential for disinformation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we\u2019ve also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies,\u201d a Google spokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
The \u201ccreate image\u201d tool, unveiled Thursday, had integrated Google\u2019s Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology into Google Earth, letting users zoom into locations and build pictures in seconds based on the program\u2019s satellite, aerial and 3D-mapping data.<\/p>\n
Trust in satellite imagery has taken decades to build and could be irrevocably damaged overnightRoss Burley, Centre for Information Resilience executive director<\/p>\n
Google had described it as a way to \u201cvisualise history, create real estate plans and more\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google rolled back a new feature on Friday that allowed Google Earth users to generate AI visualisations on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19228,24,57582,13519,63276,63280,625,63278,132,1429,62571,63279,369,63277,7837,388,4451],"class_list":["post-126270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-ai","tag-american-enterprise-institute","tag-bangladesh","tag-brady-africk","tag-centre-for-information-resilience","tag-donald-trump","tag-geoconfirmed","tag-google","tag-google-ai","tag-google-earth","tag-henk-van-ess","tag-iran","tag-islamic-state","tag-paris","tag-pentagon","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}