{"id":1025402,"date":"2026-08-01T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025402"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:31:20","slug":"alphabet-rolls-back-ai-image-generation-in-google-earth-over-policy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/alphabet-rolls-back-ai-image-generation-in-google-earth-over-policy-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google said on Friday it was rolling back an AI image-generation feature it had introduced in Google Earth just a day ago, after users shared images that appeared to violate the company&#8217;s policies. <\/p>\n<p>The feature, powered by Google&#8217;s Nano Banana 2 \u200cAI model, \u2060had \u2060allowed users to generate photorealistic images grounded in Google Earth&#8217;s satellite, aerial and 3D imagery by typing a text prompt for any location on the globe. <\/p>\n<p>The tool had come under criticism for its potential for misinformation as it allowed users to create fake scenarios on top of \u2060real imagery \u200cof monuments and landmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google said on Friday it was rolling back an AI image-generation feature it had introduced in Google Earth just a day ago, after users shared images that appeared to violate the company&#8217;s policies. The feature, powered by Google&#8217;s Nano Banana 2 \u200cAI model, \u2060had \u2060allowed users to generate photorealistic images grounded in Google Earth&#8217;s satellite, aerial and 3D imagery by typing a text prompt for any location on the globe. The tool had come under criticism for its potential for misinformation as it allowed users to create fake scenarios on top of \u2060real imagery \u200cof monuments and landmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025437,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025402\/revisions\/1025437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}