Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth

This lets people "visualize the past" via AI-created pictures. Google just announced that its Nano Banana image generation tool is coming to Google Earth, of all things. What's the possible use case here? The company has offered a few options. First and foremost, this is being marketed as a way for users to "visualize the past." Google says teachers can prompt the tool to create a "hyper-realistic view" of what "Pompeii ruins looked like in 78 AD." The company says the algorithm will "instantly transform" the modern-day ruins into a "bustling, colorful street scene from the Roman Empire." Mayb...