Google Pulls AI Image Tool After Reality Distortion

Google has rolled back an AI image generation feature in Google Earth after it was found capable of producing misleading and potentially harmful imagery. Using simple text prompts, users could manipulate real satellite and aerial footage to fabricate scenes. Journalist Henk van Ess of Digital Digging demonstrated the risks by generating fake images depicting refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater near a Gaza hospital. Google has since responded to the controversy by removing the feature.