Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
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Area 51?
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It was cancelled though.
It's still an instructive case:
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?
Textbook case of "they didn't stop to think if they should".
90% chance this was “you need to add AI features or you’re going on a PIP”
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.