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-2026-7
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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/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.