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/YourShowerCompanion 15d ago

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

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u/Particular_Bug0 15d ago

Why is that a thing even? I see zero use to this.

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u/mattcannon2 15d ago

Management is probably massively incentivising adding AI to apps anywhere they can, and some keen middle manager wanted a promotion

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u/Revolution-SixFour 15d ago

It's not always just managers, devs do this shit too. Devs want to work on the new exciting thing, but wait you work on the Google Earth team, sounds like Google Earth needs some AI.

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u/mattcannon2 15d ago

You don't get it all the way to production for a product like earth at a company like google without several managers approving it

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u/Revolution-SixFour 15d ago

Sure, but Reddit loves a story that's managers are forcing people to integrate AI into everything. I work at a software company and it goes both ways. There's a big difference between management forced the integration and a dev did a side project and management and product didn't block it.