Post

Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social spoke with NPR about Google's now paused new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social

UPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

npr.orgGoogle pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the skyJournalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

31/7/26, 6:47 pm85 reposts248 likes

NarrateANewTunnel

@narrateanewtunnel.bsky.social

31 July

But AI is ok with AI nudes

Shoshanah in Alaska

@shanahstone.bsky.social

Whoa 🤯

I'm confused about this, don't you authenticate satellite images somehow? How does that work, does someone send a satellite image showing something and it gets treated as valid evidence? I'd expect that the images came from verified sources, not random Internet Joes?

Sue [proudly 🇪🇺]

@sue2023.bsky.social

31 July

Every action has consequences - very irresponsible. Just because they can, doesn’t mean they should

nick

@amnick.bsky.social

31 July

zuckerberglevelpathetic

James Barham

@nowthenthee.bsky.social

2 Aug

I'm starting to think that these lads aren't the masters of the universe