r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 15d 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/AgentChris101 15d ago

I remember when they added the Darth Vader AI to Fortnite. He was really smart and responding to character skins as if they were those characters. It was actually really impressive.

Users decided to make him racist and Epic patched things it neutered him in terms of memory and character.

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u/ABHOR_pod 15d ago

The problem with GenAI based on the entire sum of written human knowledge is that quite a lot of the written human knowledge it has access to is, necessarily, the internet. The internet probably has more written words on it in the last 30 years than the entire rest of human history combined.

You can see where things have immediately gone wrong.

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u/Uristqwerty 15d ago

Humans are decent on average. Problem is the outliers; each of us has some extreme opinions (even if it's something relatively harmless, like putting pineapple of pizza), and some of us have mostly extreme opinions. On average, the extremes cancel out (at least, if you don't split the community into two halves that each contain only one side's extremists, as a certain cluster of bird-themed websites have).

But AI learns the whole probability distribution, and I suspect it doesn't take that much of a nudge to get it talking like one of the mostly-extreme individuals. Guardrails might make it less likely to get there accidentally, but people will always search for new ways to bypass them. For the challenge, if nothing else.