{"id":14255,"date":"2026-08-04T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:10:59","slug":"google-earth-risked-ruin-with-retracted-ai-tool-for-making-fake-satellite-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14255","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Jeremy Hsu<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJuly 31, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth\u2014before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of generative AI tools that already allow people to create AI-modified images of real buildings and cities based on user prompts. But Google\u2019s aborted attempt to incorporate its Nano Banana 2 AI image generator as a Google Earth feature made it even easier for anyone to create modified versions of authentic imagery depicting real locations\u2014something that Google boasted about when initially promoting the new feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, you can generate custom images using Google Earth\u2019s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery alongside Nano Banana, which creates concepts grounded in the real world,\u201d wrote Bryan Horowitz, product manager for Google Earth, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/earth\/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation\/\">company blog post<\/a> on July 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/07\/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/07\/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/07\/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hsu &bull; July 31, 2026 Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth\u2014before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation. There is no shortage of generative AI tools that already allow people to create AI-modified<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14255\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}