Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
中文摘要
Google 因其 Google Earth AI 工具允许用户生成现实世界的深度伪造图像，在推出仅一天后便将其关停。
English Summary
Google shut down its Google Earth AI tool after one day because it allowed users to create realistic deepfakes of real-world locations via text prompts.
Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater by a hospital in Gaza. On Thursday, Google's initial response to van Ess noted that images generated with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth included a digital watermark and that the company prevented "image creation on harmful topics." One day later, Google's new statement says tha … Read the full story at The Verge.