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Google pulls AI satellite image editing tool from Google Earth after one day

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Google launched a feature in Google Earth on Thursday that allowed users to alter real satellite imagery using AI text prompts. The tool, powered by a model called Nano Banana 2, was pulled just one day after its release. Researcher Henk van Ess of Digital Digging demonstrated how the feature could be misused by generating fabricated scenes, including images of refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater beside a hospital in Gaza. Google had initially defended the tool by citing digital watermarking and content restrictions on harmful topics, but issued a new statement the following day announcing its removal.

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