Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
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#12i’m struggling to think of a reason to use this other than shitposting
invalidate all remote sensing imagery from this day forward?
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#13I honestly don't know what the hell Google was thinking. I know shoving AI into everything is the rage these days, but this is simply an even more insane way to demolish the credibility of your own product than the AI overviews in Google Search. Glad they came to their senses quickly.
I like the AI overviews.
That's how they get you. They are trained to make you like them. They are not trained to convey true information.
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#14Good, it was a piece of bad software not to call other things. Who though it was a good idea?
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#15i’m struggling to think of a reason to use this other than shitposting
What even was this
You could take an area of Google Earth and let it be 'improved' by AI. So you could add a playground instead of a parking lot, or add migrants near a border post.
Due to consequences unforeseen by Google, it was used more for the latter.
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#16What did that even do. Generate imaginary buildings and structures?
I am almost sure this was something for a performance or promotion: “Used AI effectively to…”
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#17Here is the original blog post, in case anyone is curious about the 'good path' https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/na...
> Ex: Help students visualize the past instead of just reading about it. Teachers can show their classroom a historic site and type, “Render a hyper-realistic view of what these Pompeii ruins looked like in 78 A.D.” The modern-day ruins will instantly transform into a bustling, colorful street scene from the Roman Empire.
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#18I honestly don't know what the hell Google was thinking. I know shoving AI into everything is the rage these days, but this is simply an even more insane way to demolish the credibility of your own product than the AI overviews in Google Search. Glad they came to their senses quickly.
I like the AI overviews.
I find them irritating because they will link a source entirely unrelated to (or worse, directly contradicting) the fact they are claiming. The Google AI summaries might be the most blatantly hallucinating model widely deployed right now.
I’ve had them abruptly try to turn mathematical theorems into cooking recipes before cutting off mid-sentence in a panic.
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#19There seem to be very few adults in the room at Google as of the past few years. This also happened with Bard's (remember when they thought Bard was a good name?) racist image generator. Does nobody do QA, UAT, or UX testing anymore?
Google has always been a technology company, never a product company. It’s very deep in their DNA.
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#20Any boast about AI accelerating the development lifecycle comes with an equal or greater stock that examples like this become more frequent when there are less opportunities for someone to interrupt them with a smidge of common sense.