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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
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I wonder why google would want a service that makes it harder to discern what satellite images of bombed out homes are real or fake, and why they would want this kind of program to be publically accessible.
It was cancelled though.
modem_downIt’s still an instructive case:
- It was foreseeable (and, probably, foreseen by many people at Google) that the tool would be used in harmful ways.
- Google released it anyway
This is textbook negligence. Unjustified refusal to avoid a foreseeable harm.
That pattern of negligence is the AI boom in a nutshell.
I wonder if they are just so careless that they don’t consider any implications of what they were doing, or are they testing waters about how much reaction they receive?
Fair point. Alphabet may even have decided it was a cost-effective way to generate publicity for Google Earth, which has been out of the headlines for a decade or more.
SharkAttakTextbook case of “they didn’t stop to think if they should”.
its public front end was canceled. israel can still use it’s existence as a way to claim proof of its genocide is fake while others can use it to generate propaganda.
I hate AI, and I love maps. If I had to use AI, this would be the most tolerable way. My emails to the local traffic engineering department would get a lot more spicy! Thankfully we have GIMP so I don’t have to kill the earth to make satellite photos.
IlixtzeI said it before, this is the perfect tool to cause confusion and plausible deniability, released just as the US and Israel is mounting losses of military bases and equipment fror their illegal wars and invasions all over the Middle East.
Paywalled
ZerushDark pattern in 404, only few lines more if you create an account, better search other sources
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/articles/google-earth-ai-lets-anyone-182749664.html
Feature removed by Google at 31 July
https://decrypt.co/374805/google-yanks-google-earth-ai-image-tool-deepfake-fears
quick_snailHave people not heard of photoshop
You don’t even need PS, you can use this right in your browser to make fake images, without any AI and apart FOSS. It’s one of the most powerfull online editor.
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Google is run
myby assholes and idiots. Break it apart.Edit: fixed silly typo
Google runs your asshole and you want it broken apart? That’s pretty wild dude
This is old news; backlash was immediate and the “feature” was rescinded.
Don’t even understand what this AI feature was even supposed to be for. I’m certainly not going to rely on an AI to annotate satellite imagery. This was always just a stupid marketing thing with no real purpose behind it.
For all of Google’s faults, which of course are numerous, they do have some really talented engineers working for them, and it’s just a shame that their time is constantly wasted on crap like this rather than on useful features that people would actually benefit from.
It will be used to hide more zorro ranches and islands. It will also show areas that look nice, but will be leveled like Gaza
It’s to further the assault on truth.
This is the answer.
wow…! people is using a feature that allows you to modify the appearance of a location anywhere on earth to add craters to places!! truly an unforseeable tragedy.
Nano banana!
I mean, it does seem fun. I don’t want to turn it off. But maybe insert a hash into the image that makes it clear it’s fake