404 Media65%
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images 69%
By Joseph Cox82%
7/31/2026, 9:03:08 AM
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence
BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 67.3% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 540 faulty-reasoning hits from 101 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.7% and a BS Rank of 69% (8,280 of 26,004 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.20% of the article peer group.
On Thursday, Google introduced a new AI feature into Google Earth which lets anyone fabricate all sorts of misleading or straight up inaccurate satellite imagery, from making it look like a specific place has suffered a drone strike to manifesting a nuclear plant in Iran.
Usually, Google Earth is an exceptionally useful tool for open source intelligence (OSINT) analysts to digitally monitor areas of interest and see how they change over time, say, during a conflict or disaster.
Now, Google Earth can easily be used as a tool for disinformation.
Confirmation Bias
44.6%Confirmation Bias
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44.6%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
32.7%Status Quo Bias
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32.7%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
22.8%Pessimism Bias
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22.8%AuthorJoseph Cox
3%Publication404 Media
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Negativity Bias
67.3%Negativity Bias
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67.3%AuthorJoseph Cox
17.1%Publication404 Media
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
44.6%False Dilemma
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44.6%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Slippery Slope
56.4%Slippery Slope
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56.4%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
44.6%Hasty Generalization
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44.6%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
55.4%Appeal to Emotion
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55.4%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Begging the Question
11.9%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
32.7%Composition/Division
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32.7%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
10.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
10.9%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
55.4%Biased Writer Voice
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55.4%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Indoctrination
44.6%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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101 words analyzed.
Analysis
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