Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. “We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world,” the company added on social. So we’re rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails. If a bad actor wanted to, they could’ve manually taken satellite screenshots and fed them into their AI image generator of choice. “Unbelievably irresponsible and does immediate, catastrophic damage to the credibility of satellite imagery,” OSINTtechnical wrote.