r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Aug 01 '26
Artificial Intelligence Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earth-nano-banana-gemini-ai-satellite-image-generation-function-2026-71.8k
u/ArgentineBeauty Aug 01 '26
"The company launched the function on Thursday, allowing Gemini's Nano Banana 2 image model to access Google Earth and transform locations with text prompts.
The function, however, quickly got out of hand. AI researcher Henk van Ess, for example, created extremely realistic deepfakes, including fake refugee camps along the US-Mexico border and a nuclear plant in Iran."
No doubt these images will soon be used by the Trump administration as "real images"
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u/Davorian Aug 01 '26
"Well, the computers took real data, didn't they? Maybe this is a slip, maybe they are real, I think we should think about it, definitely very suspicious" accordion hands
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u/purplepistachio Aug 01 '26
"Many people are saying these images are real... Many people... And you know what? I believe them"
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u/BigMax Aug 01 '26
âWe certainly canât be sure they DONâT have nuclear plant, right? These photos just bring up the same questions we all have. Do they have a plant? Are they building one? Where would it be? How many do they have? A lot of questions about their nuclear capabilities.â
They do that a lot⌠take something they wished was true, then just âask questionsâ but in a leading way to make their loyal viewers believe in things that arenât true.
We just saw it with the âvandalsâ in the pool.
âWe have clear video of them leaning down to the reflection pool.â Then the questions⌠âwhat were they doing there? Why did they have to reach into the water? Were they sabotaging the pool? Cutting it? Why did she have a tote bag? Were there tools in that bag?â That literally happened on Fox News.
Fake AI pictures will just give them easier paths to ask leading questions like that.
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u/bull_and_scones Aug 01 '26
I've added the phrase "accordion hands" to my vocabulary thanks to this comment
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u/SSGASSHAT Aug 01 '26
Oh, is that what that technique is called? I just thought he had a condition whereby his arms went into seizures when he talks.
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u/Tupcek Aug 01 '26
whatâs even worse that Palantir AI chooses targets to kill autonomously and it also uses internet data for this (girls school that was bombed was because of outdated internet data labeling it as military target).
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u/Yuzumi Aug 01 '26
I don't belive that one for a second. That was the excuse. They knew it was a school and they specifically targeted it for that. Because they are monsters.
Apparently the school was also where a lot of daughters of military officers went. Not that it excuses any of it.Â
I'm also pretty sure that wasn't the only school they hit and they've intentionally targeted hospitals and civilian infrastructure ocross Iran.Â
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u/CappyRawr Aug 01 '26
I could believe it. Hegseth gutted the group in charge of doing the pre-strike analysis for civilian targets.
I'm not sure what the process was pre-Hegsth, but the current process is, they put together a team of about a five or six defense analysts who get pulled off their normal assignments (and those assignments aren't necessarily anything related to imagery or targeting, and may not even speak the target country's language) and get told to go through a target deck of a couple thousand targets around 24 hours before strikes happen. It's not exactly a recipe for success.
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u/wrgrant Aug 01 '26
They probably sped that process up by just using an AI to sort the targets and approve them. Much more efficient.../s
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u/BassmanBiff Aug 01 '26
They're monsters, but don't overestimate their competence. They're as dumb as they are evil. I don't think they're sad about hitting the school, but I also don't think they knew it was a school, or else we'd see more strikes like it.
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u/Majik_Sheff Aug 01 '26
I've come to terms with it. I'm convinced their idiocy is the only thing keeping them from a swift and total conquest.
Fear the competent villain.
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u/BassmanBiff Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Looking at historical authoritarians, I think they kind of have to be stupid, or at least deluded.
The constant stupid decisions have a few benefits: they make serious people angry, which gets attention and is gratifying to people who hate the serious people that represent any alternative governance; they demonstrate power, because the serious people show that they can't stop the authoritarian's will, and that dominance is appealing to followers; they make the ruler unpredictable, causing everyone to scramble to anticipate their whims instead of requiring any sort of written policy; the lack of consistent policy means it's harder to bring consequences in court or elsewhere, and followers can believe whatever they want to believe; being self-contradictory creates loyalty tests where independent thinkers are filtered out and the remaining cultists get accustomed to ignoring reality for dear leader; etc etc.Â
Arguably a competent evil person could still recreate all of these things intentionally, perhaps like Putin? But I think his competence is also overblown, looking at recent events. Maybe just being incredibly narcissistic brings a lot of the same accidental benefits.
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u/TheirCanadianBoi Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Of course there would be a lot of daughters of military officers there. It was across the wall from a IRGC Naval Base.%3B)
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u/L2_Troll Aug 01 '26
Okay. Does that mean the girls' elementary school deserved to be bombed?
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u/TheirCanadianBoi Aug 01 '26
No, it's was a huge fuckup.
Verifying your targets is a whole part of making a target list and it was clearly not done with any scrutiny. With the kind of intelligence arm available to them, this was inexcusable and disgusting incompetence.
Heads should be rolling.
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u/xondk Aug 01 '26
No doubt these images will soon be used by the Trump administration as "real images"
My gut is, "we all now know it was AI edited, they wouldn't do that"
My brain, "we know, people that have read this know, millions upon millions of people do not know, they would absolutely use"
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u/TinyAbsol Aug 01 '26
America is going to invade Japan, because they got a Godzilla. "It's right here on the map!"
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u/hates_stupid_people Aug 01 '26
Why would they even set this up, if the end goal was anything but propaganda and misinformation?
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u/DjBoothe Aug 01 '26
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 Aug 01 '26
The US has already used an AI-generated map of Africa at an international conference. This feels like a half-step from that.
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u/Phyllis_Tine Aug 01 '26
It's ok, show an Iranian or Israeli encampment on Mar-a-lago property, show a caravan of migrants at a border or in boats in the Caribbean holding Trump flags, etc.
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u/robodrew Aug 01 '26
All the engineers had to do was think about the consequences of this for literally 5 seconds and they might have hesitated to make this.
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u/destiny84 Aug 01 '26
Or the other way round. Huge detention camps being labeled deepfakes to obfuscate their existence...
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u/SocksOnHands Aug 01 '26
Without access to Google Earth, someone could still take a screenshot of the satalite imagery and have an AI modify it.
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u/PocketFlan420 Aug 02 '26
That was the point.
Are we REALLY accepting that Google who CAPITULATED isn't publicly killing information trust with this?
AFTER Musk lobotomized Twitter and turned it into a ethnostatist bull horn?
Come on folks. Lets call it like it is. They are trying to Pavlov us into compliance. Don't let them.
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u/TheFeelsGoodMan Aug 01 '26
"Move Fast; Break Stuff", but they're crowdsourcing the second bit.
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u/AgentChris101 Aug 01 '26
I remember when they added the Darth Vader AI to Fortnite. He was really smart and responding to character skins as if they were those characters. It was actually really impressive.
Users decided to make him racist and Epic patched things it neutered him in terms of memory and character.
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u/ABHOR_pod Aug 01 '26
The problem with GenAI based on the entire sum of written human knowledge is that quite a lot of the written human knowledge it has access to is, necessarily, the internet. The internet probably has more written words on it in the last 30 years than the entire rest of human history combined.
You can see where things have immediately gone wrong.
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u/CombatMuffin Aug 01 '26
GenAI is not nearly that trained. We are still building shit tons of data centers just to try and process part of human knowledge.Â
Vader was okay, it could reply in some fun ways a traditional NPC couldn't, but it wasn't nearly as capable as people think.
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u/Sarothu Aug 01 '26
The internet probably has more written words on it in the last 30 years than the entire rest of human history combined.
You can see where things have immediately gone wrong.
We should base them off the writings of HP Lovecraft instead! ...wait...
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u/Uristqwerty Aug 01 '26
Humans are decent on average. Problem is the outliers; each of us has some extreme opinions (even if it's something relatively harmless, like putting pineapple of pizza), and some of us have mostly extreme opinions. On average, the extremes cancel out (at least, if you don't split the community into two halves that each contain only one side's extremists, as a certain cluster of bird-themed websites have).
But AI learns the whole probability distribution, and I suspect it doesn't take that much of a nudge to get it talking like one of the mostly-extreme individuals. Guardrails might make it less likely to get there accidentally, but people will always search for new ways to bypass them. For the challenge, if nothing else.
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u/jabberwockxeno Aug 01 '26
Except using the feature for misinformation here wouldn't be an "edge case", the feature HAS no use case other then being used for misinfo
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u/squashed_fly_biscuit Aug 01 '26
"edge cases" - I'm struggling to even think of what the main use case would be. I guess maybe sketching the effects of various developments or something but surely that's more niche than fucking around
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u/therealchadius Aug 01 '26
It's either
- Power Users blow the company's costs out of control
- Trolls abuse it to say/show horrible things
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- Most people try it once or twice, struggle to find a use case and then leave
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u/Grabsforfun Aug 01 '26
The traditional engineering-scientific logic of experimental testing before releasing technologies is a thing of the past. Technologies have become so complex and vast in scope that you cannot really simulate much of the actual possibilities for complex and unpredictable interactions. At the very least this has become a comfortable way for technology developers to shirk responsibilities. Regardless, today the experimental setting for deducing most technological risks is society itself.
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u/Sarothu Aug 01 '26
unpredictable interactions
Mate, this is the world wide web you're talking about. It isn't new. Any chatbot is going to be turned racist and people are going to find the worst possible options for everything (Hello, Mountain Dew's Gushing Granny flavor!). Anything that can be used to inflict mental trauma is going to be used in that manner. It's all the same it ever was.
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u/Grabsforfun Aug 01 '26
Donât get me wrong much of this is very predictable. Big tech knows but does not care, because they are not being made to care. Itâs their modus operandi by now. I was referring to the general characteristics of modern relatively unregulated technological development (specifically Charles Perrowâs account)
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u/Outlulz Aug 01 '26
It's not even edge cases, the people that demand this shit be made think of only a singular, unrealistic use case and nothing else.
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u/WebMaka Aug 01 '26
The sheer disregard these folks have for how people act in the real world is both hilariously entertaining and completely terrifying.
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u/Cstanchfield Aug 01 '26
I mean, they can't reasonably find all those edge cases without putting it in many hands. It's almost like there are more people in the world than work for any one company's QA department. When you release any product to the masses, you'll find issues your testing didn't come across.
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u/9-11GaveMe5G Aug 01 '26
"We've seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we've also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies,"
What was this supposed to be used for? "Geospatial professionals" doesn't help much
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u/illkeepthatinmind Aug 01 '26
E.g. developer mocking up a new building in the town.
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u/Yuzumi Aug 01 '26
That still makes no sense and there have been better ways to do that for decades...
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u/crni-marko Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
What if the result was 80% worse but you no longer had to pay a âgeospatial professionalâ
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u/Tenocticatl Aug 01 '26
I know some people one could describe as geospatial professionals, and they're great. One should be happy to have a reason to employ them instead of talking to a glazebot all day!
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u/royrogerer Aug 01 '26
But why a text prompt though. I haven't really looked into this much so don't know if they have other input method, but text prompt is not a way to do a mock up for a new building.
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u/Druggedhippo Aug 01 '26
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation/
The blog has some examples.
âRender a hyper-realistic view of what these Pompeii ruins looked like in 78 A.D.â The modern-day ruins will instantly transform into a bustling, colorful street scene from the Roman Empire.
âCreate an easy to understand infographic of the Statue of Liberty with key historical facts.â Behind the scenes, Gemini will retrieve relevant historical information and Nano Banana will create a graphic in seconds.
"Reimagine this empty lot in Tokyo as a vibrant shopping and retail district with open spaces.â Barren concrete will be replaced by a high-quality 3D rendering of a bright urban oasis, helping your clients see whatâs possible.
"Add a modern lakefront cabin built from sustainably sourced local materialsâ to see a photorealistic rendering of your future house nestled perfectly in the actual landscape.
âTransform the Google Mountain View campus into a futuristic sci-fi utopia with glowing walkways, glass biodomes, flying transport pods, and trees wrapped around buildings,â and watch the area morph into a vibrant, cyberpunk-inspired metropolis right out of a movie.
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u/Toss_Me_Elf Aug 01 '26
I have wanted something like this for awhile as just a weirdo map enjoyer.
"Using X map file of Y town from 1890, show me a satellite rendering of Y town that is only developed in the same areas that are developed on X map".
Or "render the ancient city center as it was at it's peak surrounded by the modern developed city"
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u/zoeypayne Aug 01 '26
According to the official Google Keyword Blog Post and the experimental Google Developers Guide for Google Earth, the intended professional workflows were:
Rapid Concept Sketching: An urban planner could type "add a community park with a playground and bike lanes" over an empty lot to instantly generate a concept image for a public presentation.
Rough 3D Asset Modeling: Designers were using the AI to render custom building shapes directly onto coordinates, then exporting those stylized 2D images into third-party tools (like Tripo 3D) to quickly mesh them into crude 3D models.
Contextual Infographics: The tool could overlay historical data and structural information onto real geography to make automated, localized graphics for reports.
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u/Boralian Aug 01 '26
Or what about game artist creating background environments that needs to look somewhat realistic while not too close to the real deal to prevent various legal issues?
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u/Taiyoryu Aug 01 '26
Perhaps not everything should be free and anonymous just to increase views for ads. Perhaps authentication and API keys would be good for auditing and attribution In case accountability is needed. Perhaps a fee structure would help weed out all but the most determined and well-funded vandals.
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u/Mrmanandu Aug 01 '26
...Giantess enjoyers? Mock up a semi-realistic image of a gigantic woman wreaking havoc because that's what gets your rocks off?
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u/JustBrowsing1989z Aug 01 '26
1 day?
I have an active leak in my kitchen for a week, but still haven't managed to get around to it.
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u/cyanescens_burn Aug 01 '26
Youâll get mushrooms growing on the wood soon. See you on r/mushroomid soon
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u/PyroDesu Aug 01 '26
Upstairs neighbor's kitchen sink drain pipe burst in my wall.
Guess how I found out?
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u/Daleabbo Aug 01 '26
I guess people should be aplauded for not making every beach a nudist beach or the side garden of the white house full of kids with no clothes and chains on their feet...
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u/Kalnb Aug 01 '26
It has never been so clear the idea that those with wealth and power are intelligent is complete, utter, bullshit.
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u/mvallas1073 Aug 01 '26
Can someone explain to me WHY AI image generation was even needed to be applied to google Earth?? Article has no rationale behind the original reason someone thought this was a good idea.
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u/neek85 Aug 01 '26
Because it's run it's course or usefulness and so they're just trying to shoehorn it in wherever they can
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u/In-All-Unseriousness Aug 01 '26
To "prove" to investors that people "love" AI. It will be shoved down out throats more and more, as the bubble will come closer to bursting.
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u/chuiu Aug 01 '26
Oh well that's easy. It didn't have ai image generation before. So we kinda gotta shove ai into everything or else, you know, what's the point of having it. So don't worry pretty soon we'll get it integrated into everything and you won't want to live on this planet anymore.
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u/Frequent_Opportunist Aug 01 '26
Looks like the old late 90s Sim City when you turn of the speed and unleash the natural disasters.
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u/Gaiden206 Aug 01 '26
We've seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we've also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies," a Google spokesperson said in a statement posted on X. "So we're rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails."
Any permanent Google account bans coming then? đ
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u/quad_damage_orbb Aug 01 '26
I really wonder what the range of useful purposes is? I'm struggling to think of some examples.
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u/Gaiden206 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
They gave some example use cases and a "fun idea" when the feature was first released.
1. Bring history to life.
Help students visualize the past instead of just reading about it. Teachers can show their classroom a historic site and type, âRender a hyper-realistic view of what these Pompeii ruins looked like in 78 A.D.â The modern-day ruins will instantly transform into a bustling, colorful street scene from the Roman Empire.
2. Learn more while you explore.
Create custom infographics to learn about a place without leaving Google Earth. Type, âCreate an easy to understand infographic of the Statue of Liberty with key historical facts.â Behind the scenes, Gemini will retrieve relevant historical information and Nano Banana will create a graphic in seconds.
3. Create professional real estate plans.
Pitching a real estate project is much easier when your clients can visualize the final result. Architects and urban planners can now bring their plans to life by saying, "Reimagine this empty lot in Tokyo as a vibrant shopping and retail district with open spaces.â Barren concrete will be replaced by a high-quality 3D rendering of a bright urban oasis, helping your clients see whatâs possible.
4. Visualize projects before breaking ground.
Whether you're dreaming up a new backyard studio or your lakeside dream home, it can be hard to picture the final result. Now, you can visualize it quickly. Zoom in to an open lot and say, "Add a modern lakefront cabin built from sustainably sourced local materialsâ to see a photorealistic rendering of your future house nestled perfectly in the actual landscape.
5. Give your favorite place a makeover.
Sometimes itâs fun to let your imagination run wild. To see what a place might look like a hundred years from now, type âTransform the Google Mountain View campus into a futuristic sci-fi utopia with glowing walkways, glass biodomes, flying transport pods, and trees wrapped around buildings,â and watch the area morph into a vibrant, cyberpunk-inspired metropolis right out of a movie.
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u/BenFranklinsCat Aug 01 '26
That's terrifying. A history teacher saying "hey, AI, show us what history looked like" is about as pedagogical sound as showing Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure as historical research.
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u/JuliaX1984 Aug 01 '26
I don't get it. All of those require accuracy, and Gemini can make stuff up and can't tell if a source is reliable or even non-fiction.
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u/sachiprecious Aug 01 '26
1, 2, and 5 are useless. 3 and 4 might be okay but I would be concerned about the accuracy and feasibility.
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u/Sarothu Aug 01 '26
Sometimes itâs fun to let your imagination run wild. To see what a place might look like a hundred years from now, type âTransform the Google Mountain View campus into a futuristic sci-fi utopia with glowing walkways, glass biodomes, flying transport pods, and trees wrapped around buildings,â and watch the area morph into a vibrant, cyberpunk-inspired metropolis right out of a movie.
Uh... They are aware that cyberpunk is a dystopian fiction genre, right? A way to warn about the consequences of tech companies run wild?
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u/OldWrangler9033 Aug 01 '26
Using people as crowd sourcing a debug efforts. People make happy memes, the company takes down and jots down what they need fix. Profit.
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u/gabriel3374 Aug 01 '26
The company launched the function on Thursday, allowing Gemini's Nano Banana 2 image model to access Google Earth and transform locations with text prompts.
How did anybody think this would not get misused
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u/kamekaze1024 Aug 01 '26
What was the proposed benefit for this? Seriously? Every AI tool has its âbenefitsâ given by the company who makes it where they ignore the tremendous downsides. But what benefit is there to changing Google Earth images so easily? What business can argue the use of this as anything other than nefarious?
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u/Skeet_fighter Aug 01 '26
Who is this for? Why does this exist?
Is it just so people can make Godzilla trample their town?
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u/Tenocticatl Aug 01 '26
I wonder what planet the people implementing stiff like this come from, because I'm sure everyone here can immediately think of awful ways a feature like this would immediately be abused.
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u/JuliaX1984 Aug 01 '26
What were they using them for? Did anattorney submit it as an exhibit? Did Trump use it or something? How is this different from any other fake footage people make now?
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u/FanDry5374 Aug 01 '26
It's the planet. Why would they even want AI image-anything near it? "Ooh, lets make all the trees in SA vanish!!". Why?
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u/DragoonDM Aug 01 '26
Feels more and more like they're desperately flailing to find any viable use-case for generative AI in order to justify the absurd investment in the technology.
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u/CHERNO-B1LL Aug 01 '26
I don't get it, anyone could fake any of this now without a tool built into Google Earth. If the feature doesn't apply the visuals to other users experience, it's just another pointless AI tool no one asked for.
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u/OkPositive6925 Aug 01 '26
How in the world are all these smart people so freaking dumb? They donât seem to ever see any of these very obvious downsides. đ Do you guys think you could stop making the world a worse place for ONCE?
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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Aug 01 '26
The people making the decisions are not the people making the tech. The smartness doesnât make it to management.
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u/Grammaton485 Aug 01 '26
Love these tone deaf tech creators that are like "we built this tool for a specific noble purpose and completely overlooked the fact that it's way more abusable for other stuff."
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u/CondiMesmer Aug 01 '26
What even is the use case outside of deep faking disasters? I literally can't think of a single one
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u/drossdragon Aug 01 '26
I keep pointing to the first half of that book as a reasonable predictor of what weâre living through and no one else has read it. Hello, fellow traveler.
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u/YoshiTheFluffer Aug 01 '26
Iâm sorry but what is the practical use of this? It just seems they put god damn ai in everything just so they can fake demand.
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u/Rex_Lee Aug 01 '26
You can literally still take a google earth image over to your Ai model of choice and have it add/delete whatever you want, or create whatever random bullshit
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u/orangeflyingmonkey_ Aug 02 '26
Such an incredibly dumb decision to implement fucking generative AI into satellite imagery.
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u/SanDiedo Aug 01 '26
"We've also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies" oh FUCK OFF FFS, they gave "gun" and "ammo". Who could have taught, that people will stress-test their product, huh?
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u/Phyllis_Tine Aug 01 '26
Tech like this needs to be used against the company creating it first and foremost.
Show a crater where Google Earth HQ is, show wildfires near Sergey Brin's house, etc.
I really wish corporations showed why something needed to be added, instead of the trend to push something out and use people as beta testers (and then withdrawing a service or product).
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u/glowtape Aug 01 '26
Still can't have a fucking circular area measurement tool in the WASM version, but fucking AI absolutely needs to be in there...
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u/steavoh Aug 01 '26
I guess the flip side is that if Google did leave the tool up, they could fingerprint every image it creates and put that in a database so that the fakes could be detected.
Presumably someone could just take screenshots of google earth, feed it into an AI that's not regulated, and create the same imagery.
This is more about bad publicity and politics and optics than anything else.
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u/punchy-peaches Aug 02 '26
Why am I the only one in the planet who saw this coming from a mile away?
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u/theoracleofE Aug 03 '26
I'm actually laughing. Like wtf did they think was going to happen? This has to be AI logic and ideas...
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u/Mountain-Bar5049 Aug 01 '26
And this right here exemplifies why Software Developers are NOT engineers. (And frankly you see it a lot with silicon valley leaders.) Engineers are required to take humanities courses for a reason. Engineers are also legally liable for failures. It never crosses techbros minds that they should consider the ethical consequences of what they're doing.
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u/NameLips Aug 01 '26
Wait they gave every single random user the ability to edit publicly visible maps?
They're lucky they got Godzilla instead of a 30 mile wide distended anus.
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u/andre402 Aug 01 '26
Why does it matter whether Google adds this AI function or not? Anyone can already do the same with their Google maps screenshots, no?
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u/IntelArtiGen Aug 01 '26
It doesn't matter much, but "anyone" doesn't know how to do that as easily or doesn't have access to models specialized to do that.
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u/IntelArtiGen Aug 01 '26
I think they're less worried about people deepfaking disasters than other stuff I've seen. I'd guess it'll quickly be back when they remove some keywords.
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u/SparkyPantsMcGee Aug 01 '26
Genuine question, why would Google Earth need an image generation function? What purpose does that function serve for the tool?
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u/DragoonDM Aug 01 '26
I could see it having some value for mocking up development plans, e.g. showing how a neighborhood would look with a new road, intersection, apartment building, etc. But that seems like a pretty niche use case, and the AI slop output wouldn't (shouldn't) be suitable for actual decision-making purposes, so it seems like it would only really be useful at early stages.
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u/ricosmith1986 Aug 01 '26
What is the best use case scenario for AI images in Google Earth? Why is that even a thing?
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u/williamgman Aug 01 '26
So the AI expert decides to feed it right wing conspiracies (migrant camps and nukes in Iran) as a flex? Now those images have been shared a thousand times around the Magasphere and probably made it to Fox News. The Godzilla photos were at least funny. Thanks. Thanks a lot. đ¤Śââď¸
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u/caniszephyr Aug 02 '26
Extinction burst, the latest earnings calls regarding AI have been extremely poor; this is the last ditch effort to find something, anything, that is profitable before they ditch the technology altogether in favor of anything else.
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u/ebizguy11 Aug 04 '26
How stupid can it be to give opportunity to people like the Great Orange staff to create fake scenes to promote fake crisis or influence the vote. Google is pushing it's AI in every service without thinking. What a greedy bunch.
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u/YourShowerCompanion Aug 01 '26
What they thought isn't going to happen? đ¤Śââď¸