Google pulled its AI image-editing feature from Google Earth within 24 hours of its launch, after users created deepfakes depicting disasters.
  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.