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Google Earth Tried to Fake Reality. That's Not a Bug, It's a Warning. On Thursday, Google released a feature inside Google Earth that let users generate satellite imagery from text prompts. By Friday, it was gone. The speed of the retraction tells you everything you need to know: Google recognized almost immediately that it had handed millions of people a tool to fabricate geographic evidence at scale—and that this wasn't a feature to iterate on. It was a mistake that needed killing. But here's what matters more than Google's quick cleanup: the fact that this seemed like a reasonable idea…