{"id":554274,"date":"2026-08-01T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:30:08","slug":"see-how-google-earth-let-people-make-fake-scenes-of-bombings-riots-and-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554274\/","title":{"rendered":"See how Google Earth let people make fake scenes of bombings, riots and destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MG2JBFMN6NHZDGOSFYZJKJXZQI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/earth\/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/earth\/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation\/\">rolled out<\/a> Thursday a new feature that let anyone generate artificial intelligence images and superimpose them onto satellite maps of the real world.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"645TEZFRFZDJRLRFQIIOUDFCFM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MDualsense\/status\/2082964162578117045\" rel=\"nofollow\">plane<\/a> crashing into a Manhattan skyscraper, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaldigging.org\/p\/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nuclear facility in Iran<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kvistp\/status\/2082955587667583008\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kvistp\/status\/2082955587667583008\">aerial images<\/a> of a bombing in Moscow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google rolled out Thursday a new feature that let anyone generate artificial intelligence images and superimpose them onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-554274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}