Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

Google Earth’s new AI image generator could create satellite, aerial, and 3D-style scenes from text prompts.

Researchers and critics showed it could also produce convincing fake imagery, raising misinformation concerns.

Google pointed to watermarking and SynthID, but later said it would roll back the feature.

The episode underscores how AI in mapping and satellite tools can make fabricated visual evidence harder to verify and easier to spread.