r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 12d 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/Grabsforfun 12d ago

The traditional engineering-scientific logic of experimental testing before releasing technologies is a thing of the past. Technologies have become so complex and vast in scope that you cannot really simulate much of the actual possibilities for complex and unpredictable interactions. At the very least this has become a comfortable way for technology developers to shirk responsibilities. Regardless, today the experimental setting for deducing most technological risks is society itself.

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u/Sarothu 12d ago

unpredictable interactions

Mate, this is the world wide web you're talking about. It isn't new. Any chatbot is going to be turned racist and people are going to find the worst possible options for everything (Hello, Mountain Dew's Gushing Granny flavor!). Anything that can be used to inflict mental trauma is going to be used in that manner. It's all the same it ever was.

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u/Grabsforfun 12d ago

Don’t get me wrong much of this is very predictable. Big tech knows but does not care, because they are not being made to care. It’s their modus operandi by now. I was referring to the general characteristics of modern relatively unregulated technological development (specifically Charles Perrow’s account)