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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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It was cancelled though.
It'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?
Might have been generating more training data.
90% chance this was “you need to add AI features or you’re going on a PIP”
Textbook case of "they didn't stop to think if they should".
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.
Area 51?