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See how Google Earth let people make fake scenes of bombings, riots and destruction
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See how Google Earth let people make fake scenes of bombings, riots and destruction

  • August 1, 2026

Google rolled out Thursday a new feature that let anyone generate artificial intelligence images and superimpose them onto satellite maps of the real world.

By Friday afternoon, Google backtracked on the feature, after people had seized on it to create alarming, realistic fake scenes, including what looked like a plane crashing into a Manhattan skyscraper, a nuclear facility in Iran and aerial images of a bombing in Moscow.

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