Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (Henk van Ess/Digital Digging)

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Google Earth added Nano Banana 2 image generation, raising practical concerns about synthetic geospatial imagery despite SynthID watermarking.

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<a href="https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260731/i8.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260731/p8#a260731p8" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Henk van Ess / <a href="https://www.digitaldigging.org/">Digital Digging</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran">Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The question is: what on earth is Google doing?&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; UPDATED, with response of Google&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Tonight I typed just one sentence &hellip; </p>

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