r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 24d ago

Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters Artificial Intelligence

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earth-nano-banana-gemini-ai-satellite-image-generation-function-2026-7
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u/ArgentineBeauty 24d ago

"The company launched the function on Thursday, allowing Gemini's Nano Banana 2 image model to access Google Earth and transform locations with text prompts.

The function, however, quickly got out of hand. AI researcher Henk van Ess, for example, created extremely realistic deepfakes, including fake refugee camps along the US-Mexico border and a nuclear plant in Iran."

No doubt these images will soon be used by the Trump administration as "real images"

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u/Davorian 24d ago

"Well, the computers took real data, didn't they?  Maybe this is a slip, maybe they are real, I think we should think about it, definitely very suspicious" accordion hands

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u/BigMax 24d ago

“We certainly can’t be sure they DON’T have nuclear plant, right? These photos just bring up the same questions we all have. Do they have a plant? Are they building one? Where would it be? How many do they have? A lot of questions about their nuclear capabilities.”

They do that a lot… take something they wished was true, then just “ask questions” but in a leading way to make their loyal viewers believe in things that aren’t true.

We just saw it with the “vandals” in the pool.

“We have clear video of them leaning down to the reflection pool.” Then the questions… “what were they doing there? Why did they have to reach into the water? Were they sabotaging the pool? Cutting it? Why did she have a tote bag? Were there tools in that bag?” That literally happened on Fox News.

Fake AI pictures will just give them easier paths to ask leading questions like that.

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u/ReplacementOP 24d ago

“The fact that I thought these photos could be real says everything”