@afro.tech: What happens when anyone can alter Google Earth with AI? 👀 Google introduced an AI feature for Google Earth that let people generate images on satellite maps. It was removed within a day after users generated realistic images depicting fictional crises and scenarios. The incident raises a bigger question about AI-generated content. Satellite imagery has long been used as evidence. As AI makes it easier to alter what we see, protecting what’s real becomes more important than ever. 💭 Should tools like this come back with stronger guardrails, or should they stay gone? 👇🏾 #AFROTECH #CreatorFellow @Imani Vaughn-Jones
I don’t think it should exist at all, the implications are to great- socially, geopolitically and environmentally. The use of AI should be dialed back providing the environmental consequences. I’m happy they were proactive in addressing the issue
2026-08-11 22:43:27
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Irene Uju :
Glad they ended it tbh. We can barely be trusted with AI as it is now even with the supposed “guard rails”