Google said it would abandon its new feature for improving Google Earth maps using artificial intelligence — the new feature allowed AI to refine satellite images of the Earth at users’ discretion.
The innovation sparked a great deal of criticism, including from the OSINT community.
In particular, it was noted that it undermines the authority of any publications based on satellite imagery, and also makes it easier to carry out manipulations on sensitive social and political issues.
In particular, OSINTtechnical and its followers generated, for example, a series of fake images that could be used by the propaganda of certain countries and movements.
Among the generated images were launch rockets in Cuba, missiles destroyed by the FP-5 Kremlin, a huge crowd of migrants on the border between the United States and Mexico, and a bombed hospital in Gaza.
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