Google Kills Earth AI Generator After Just One Day
Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
Google has decided to roll back the image generation feature in Google Earth after only one day. While geospatial professionals found the tool useful, the company observed users sharing generated imagery that violated policies. To maintain trust and ensure reliability, Google is pausing the feature to implement stronger guardrails. The generated images were watermarked and did not appear in the main experience for other users.
You guys are living in a complete bubble. Step outside Silicon Valley for two seconds and you'll realize no actual human wants AI sludge crammed into every corner of every product.
- VCFundedGenYer
There seem to be very few adults in the room at Google as of the past few years. This also happened with Bard's (remember when they thought Bard was a good name?) racist image generator. Does nobody do QA, UAT, or UX testing anymore?
- angrydev
Here is the original blog post, in case anyone is curious about the 'good path' https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/na...
> Ex: Help students visualize the past instead of just reading about it. Teachers can show their classroom a historic site and type, “Render a hyper-realistic view of what these Pompeii ruins looked like in 78 A.D.” The modern-day ruins will instantly transform into a bustling, colorful street scene from the Roman Empire.
- inigyou
https://xcancel.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/208324996215076061...
- rdtsc
What did that even do. Generate imaginary buildings and structures?
I am almost sure this was something for a performance or promotion: “Used AI effectively to…”
- AlexAplin
Any boast about AI accelerating the development lifecycle comes with an equal or greater stock that examples like this become more frequent when there are less opportunities for someone to interrupt them with a smidge of common sense.
- 650
Product managers at Google have a strangehold on their bad releases. It's become a whole thing for engineers to have to please their XFN (cross functional) partners in product and UX for review cycles and promos.
- reenorap
I think if Google stopped retreating so quickly with its tail between its legs after getting “embarrassed”, people would stop caring. All of the “sins” that were created via this is nothing that other AI couldn’t produce either.
Part of the sport in making Google look bad is because they know Google will predictably cower when they are embarrassed. If they just said “ya, sometimes people will make bad pics but who cares?” people would stop caring.
Everything that Ars Technica found in my opinion is nothing that other AI image generators couldn’t do on their own. What’s the big deal?
- intexpress
I liked the feature (once I figured out how to access it, so confusing). But it only let you generate 1 image per day. So kind of useless.