It’s worrying how often I see news like that where they elaborate on human traits like acceptance and “understanding” of the model.

Could it be that our society had disconnected from emotion so far that any synthetic simulacra of a real compassion makes vulnerable people swallow it bait, line and sinker?

Nah, they just want money, is all.

I think best in class satellites are now producing images at resolution of 0.35…0.50m per pixel. You can go to Planet Labs website and check their image samples to understand what it means and the extent of verification you can get with that.