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I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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Sandeha Lynch

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Oddly enough, I noticed yesterday that Google Maps has the entire city of Minsk and its surroundings completely bleached out. Not blurred, like some special military installation, but bleached of colour, and quite useless as a map.

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