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Google Pauses AI Satellite Images, After Fears of Deepfakes in the Sky
Google has removed a newly introduced Google Earth feature that enabled users to generate AI satellite images, citing policy violations in screenshots. Open-source researchers and journalists demonstrated the tool's capacity to create convincing fake disaster imagery, such as fires on Iran's Kharg Island or Capitol flooding, raising significant misinformation concerns. Experts have cautioned that such tools jeopardize satellite imagery's credibility as a reliable verification source, especially given the prior circulation of fake satellite images during the US-Israel-Iran conflict.
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