TL;DR
- Yesterday, Google announce that Google Earth was getting Nano Banana 2 image generation.
- The company is now pressing pause on the feature, citing policy violations.
- Google plans to bring it back after stricter guardrails are in place.
Playing around generating images with AI is a whole lot of fun… up until it isn’t. At some point, someone’s going to make a particularly controversial image, or maybe try to pass off a fake as the real thing, or even just rip off a real artist’s work. Yesterday, Google announced it was bringing Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 image generation to Google Earth to make it easy to create imaginative landscapes based on real-world locations, and now it’s already finding itself forced to backtrack.
Over on X, Google’s official news account has issued a statement:
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