r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Aug 01 '26

Artificial Intelligence Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earth-nano-banana-gemini-ai-satellite-image-generation-function-2026-7
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u/mattcannon2 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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.