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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images (www.404media.co)
submitted 21 hours ago by modem_down@thebrainbin.org to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Crossposted from https://piefed.social/c/technology@piefed.social/p/2250801/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images

https://archive.ph/20260731164721/https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

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[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 34 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's still an instructive case:

  1. It was foreseeable (and, probably, foreseen by many people at Google) that the tool would be used in harmful ways.
  2. 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.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 6 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

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?

[–] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Might have been generating more training data.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 20 hours ago

90% chance this was “you need to add AI features or you’re going on a PIP”

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Textbook case of "they didn't stop to think if they should".

[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 6 points 20 hours ago

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.