Google pitched the image-generation integration as a way to help you visualize history, but people quickly harnessed it to 'violate our policies,' the company says.

After Google added its AI image generator, Nano Banana, to Google Earth on Thursday, it reversed its decision a day later. Google announced the addition of Nano Banana 2 into its mapping platform, presumably to help users generate infographics about a site,

Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.