Google rolls back satellite image AI tool in less than 24 hours after launch, says: We have also seen people sharing screenshots

In less than a day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click of a button on its Google Earth platform, the company announced it was removing the tool. Google has rolled back the new feature that allowed Google Earth users to generate AI visualizations on top of the service’s satellite imagery. The roll back comes in lass than 24 hours after concerns from researchers and open-source intelligence experts about disinformation risks that the feature raised. The “create image” tool, rolled out Thursday (July 30), integrates Google’s Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology to let users zoom into locations and build images in seconds based on Google Earth satellite, aerial and 3D-mapping data.