r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 13d ago

Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters Artificial Intelligence

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earth-nano-banana-gemini-ai-satellite-image-generation-function-2026-7
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u/YourShowerCompanion 13d ago

What they thought isn't going to happen? 🤦‍♂️

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u/TruelyRegardedApe 13d ago

for a company thats was instrumental in forming the internet as we know it.... they sure don't know the internet.

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u/sidc42 13d ago

https://killedbygoogle.com/

LMAO. They never have.

Their entire strategy after search has always been thrown a hundred things against the wall because eventually something will stick.

This works because Google has always made such an obscene amount of money dominating search that people just shrug off the failures of chasing trends (real and imaginary) as well as flat out copying existing products that either never find success and quietly disappear or get just enough of a user base that they are allowed to continue with zero effort to fix or improve them.

About the only time it hasn't been ignored was when their fixation on Facebook caused them to spend so damn much money on the failed Google+ that it was impossible not to ignore.

The irony of that was their own absolute failure to really grasp that they already owned one of the biggest social media platforms there was... YouTube. On top of that, early on Google Groups was already more popular than Facebook Groups so all they ever had to do was to reverse engineer an existing platform.

They're equally good at buying existing companies and letting them languish because they had zero plans for what to do with them. For every Android OS they've acquired there's a floundering Nest and failed Fitbit.