I cannot think of a single positive or innocent use case for this “feature” Would love to know who requested it and what justification product marketing used to push it. Oh and saying Google’s own AI can be used to verify images is too cute by half. This is a war crime generator being born.

Faine Greenwood

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery: