Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."

New Google Earth AI tool could fuel misinformation, experts say

Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.

AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War

Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a “second level of disinformation.”

A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went viral. Why did AI say it wasn’t real?

Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war

I am a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with Planet, applying deep learning to geospatial AI problems. Planet has a fleet of Low Earth Orbit cubesats that image the land mass of the Earth daily to monitor changes and pinpoint trends. At Planet I've done everything from detecting new roads and buildings appearing in protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon to helping figure out how to put machine learning GPUs into space to applying cutting edge advancements in AI to Earth Observation problems.

Google research shows the fast rise of AI-generated misinformation | CBC News

From fake images of war to celebrity hoaxes, AI technology has spawned new forms of reality-warping misinformation online. New analysis co-authored by Google researchers shows just how quickly the problem has grown.

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.

Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools

Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.

The U.S. Government Just Gave Drone Haters A Free Pass To Report You

Imagine if the news media put out an alert saying, “The federal government wants you to keep a watchful eye and report any suspicious red vehicles that you

Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation

Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.

An AI-Generated Content Empire Is Spreading Fake Celebrity Images on Google

A ring of websites using AI and run by an aspiring movie star are behind fake celebrity images featured in Google results, Motherboard found.

Google made a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out

For now, SynthID works only in Google’s ecosystem — but it could someday be all over the internet