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Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters

www.businessinsider.com/google-earth-nano-banana-gemini-ai-satellite-image-generation-function-2026-7
Business InsiderGoogle Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disastersGoogle pulled its AI image-editing feature from Google Earth within 24 hours of its launch, after users created deepfakes depicting disasters.

Replying to @⁨Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world⁩

It’s worse than all that. I clicked on all the Xitter links so you wouldn’t have to, at the bottom is this post from this guy who was able to put a photorealistic image of a nuke plant in Iran, and a throng of migrants at the US-Mexican border, both of which didn’t exist in the source material:

digitaldigging.org/…/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant…

We know that this didn’t come out of a vacuum, this capability has been there and was only recently released to the public. We also know that this Administration is in very close with all the tech bros enshittifying everything, and they like to lie, especially about history.

So, now we know what the October Surprise before this election is going to be: the Administration is going to use fake satellite imagery to rile everyone up. We’ll be lucky if they don’t drop some nukes in the process…

www.digitaldigging.orgHow to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing?

Replying to @⁨dhork@lemmy.world⁩

photorealistic image of a nuke plan

“Photorealistic”. It seems a screenshot from SimCity 4

Same for the fake trump statue

Maybe the hallucinated text nearby the white house has a bit of truth? It says “The Whine House [something in Cyrillic] pederast”

And also the fake crater nearby the hospital in Gaza is blatantly fake: IRL there’s only the crater instead of the hospital as unfortunately all the patients and doctors were terrorists

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨3⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨04:35⁩⁩en