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Google Earth AI Image Generation
Feature removed · Public Backlash · shut down July 31, 2026
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- Public Backlash
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On July 30, 2026 Google put Nano Banana 2 inside Google Earth on the web: zoom to any spot on the planet, click 'create image', and describe what should be there instead. A BBC journalist and other critics pointed out that one of the most trusted sources of visual evidence for journalists and researchers now had a fake-imagery button. By the next day Google said it had seen people 'sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies' and rolled the feature back while it worked on stronger guardrails. It lived about a day.