It might have been that plan all along, but now you can’t tell someone to just google it. You can’t believe google results anymore.
Google is run
myby assholes and idiots. Break it apart.Edit: fixed silly typo
Because of course. Who could have seen that coming before they added it
What on Earth was every the intended use of this feature? I just can’t think of any way to use it other than vandalism and misinformation.
Google wanted its satellite images to help unleash users’ imaginations, like visualizing what an empty lot could look like, or seeing what their neighborhood looked like 100 years ago, or what it could look like 100 years from now.
This is old news; backlash was immediate and the “feature” was rescinded.
Those are balls.
This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.
Are those balls? 'Cause the last time we were here, they were balls.
Eh, this one’s fixable, because you only have a few sources of legit imagery, and it’s all contemporary and digital. Just have Google Earth render the image server-side and add a cryptographic signature to any legit satellite images that someone saves.
You can have AI-generated satellite imagery and image-is-proof satellite images coexisting. Can’t do that for most images, but for this particular niche, you can.
