The backlash made Google pause the feature that made it easy, but it's of course still possible, and now put in everybody's heads.
It was so hard for Google to predict the harm. Asking experts is a struggle for tech companies 🤪
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@faineg.bsky.social: I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
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