Google is run by assholes and fools. They should be broken apart.
they should set up a Ministry of Truth to handle things like this
I don’t think the Super Government would even support such a company. Google doesn’t dutifully pay its dues.
What was even the point of this; what was the intended use case?
I’m serious, I have no idea who this is for. Other than to show people that their AI can badly superimpose pictures of Godzilla over maps.
i’ll take a shot.
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education: these are the pyramids of giza. this is what they used to look like.
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real eatate: generate an image of how the development of somethjng would look
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business: generate a map with detaled renederings of all their locations.
I would prefer to have human generated images in all those cases, education needs to be accurate or it’s not worth it, I don’t want the AI interpreting what the pyramids used to look like I want a render based on archaeologists analysis. A new development will have a particular look, in order for the image to be useful it has to be an accurate representation of the building, an AI will just put something generic there.
I wouldn’t take a plausible-but-not-accurate result for any of these applications
But all those resources already exist without AI.
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Isn’t this really the only valid reason for any AI image generation? Things I’ve AI image generated: 1) Godzilla riding a Unicycle B) Godzilla taking a math test #) Godzilla fixing a printer iv) Godzilla roasting a marshmallow with his breath V) My corporate logo with Godzilla attacking superimposed. None of the above is a joke.
I AM FUCKING TIRED OF THIS SHIT YOU WANT THE REAL REASON WE CREATED AI? Rick and Morty needed to run for millions of years but the actors, artists and creators would all be dead. So we created AI to immortalize them so they would make Rick and Morty for a million years.
AI is unintentionally hilarious. The biggest problem is that the humor rarely translates to others, so it’s sort of just a joke for you to enjoy and then throw away.
And we’re destroying the environment for it
Nice. I once asked for a picture of Godzilla giving a speech at the UN.
I work in this space: you can use it to mock up commercial developments, changes in land use, etc., to see what it would look like. Somewhat useful when presenting rather dry architectural diagrams into realistic looking scenes.
Now, why it was broadly opened to the public is unclear to me other than being a flex?
you can use it to mock up commercial developments
Fair, but aren’t there better solutions for this already?
Depends on how you define “better.” You can generate many variants of a scene this way, at night say, or in snowy conditions. You can mock up emergency response situations. It’s part of the story you’re telling but not a straight up replacement.
I suppose better in this case means accurate.
Unless you just need the image to be off to the side of a PowerPoint presentation and no one’s really supposed to pay any attention to it I can’t really see how I could rely on an AI to produce an output that I want.
I guess by better I mostly mean “without AI”
Machines should work. Humans should think.
Seems to imply people don’t use Ai to shortcut their thinking and people don’t think when they work.
It’s easier for the news and the government to deepfake things like “huge mobs of Mexican narcoterrorists just over the border” or “there’s a nuclear missile silo in Iran” or whatever with this.
It’s weird to make it public if that’s the case.
Nah, that just helps to normalize it and let people think it’s just harmless and fun.
In large organizations when the order comes down from on high that ‘we are all in on whatever’ AI in this case, middle managers and product owners start looking for ways to ram that thing into their product so they can keep playing the game.
So it’s just another solution in search of a problem basically?
That’s the whole story from the beginning. It’s not good and trustworthy enough for the real work but they’ve poured all that money in there so it needs to be used.
It’s worse than all that. I clicked on all the Xitter links so you wouldn’t have to, at the bottom is this post from this guy who was able to put a photorealistic image of a nuke plant in Iran, and a throng of migrants at the US-Mexican border, both of which didn’t exist in the source material:
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran
We know that this didn’t come out of a vacuum, this capability has been there and was only recently released to the public. We also know that this Administration is in very close with all the tech bros enshittifying everything, and they like to lie, especially about history.
So, now we know what the October Surprise before this election is going to be: the Administration is going to use fake satellite imagery to rile everyone up. We’ll be lucky if they don’t drop some nukes in the process…
They could have done that already.
Is this why the actually good Google Earth Pro is being sunsetted for the much worse web-only version? So they can push horseshit like this on us?
Highly likely
Ahhhh damit! I’d have loved to have used it to create a giant Trump hippo splattering poop across the White House lawn and where the new ballroom is… Oh well. Wasn’t fast enough to enjoy the fun.
Oh good. They made an “anger boomer” button.
My neighbor about to be host to several mercenaries
Paywall
Pro tip, YMMV (browser reading mode) - a couple news sites have learned how to block it
I think they do this to promote their new SynthID.
I remember someone renaming NYC to jewtropolis on some navigation app I think
