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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:

I'm trying to figure out what the imagined non-evil utility of this is supposed to be. Why would people want the ability to add random shit to Google Earth images? Is this just a case of "we need to figure out how to shoehorn generative AI into every product?"

Just posted about this. The use cases are here blog.google/products-and... bsky.app/profile/wend...

I respect your opinion and experience. From a product perspective, I see the utility in some of them. Whether or not the market agrees is an open question

I think there’s also very little market utility here either. The only people who will find this useful are amoral scammers and propagandists.

Time will tell. I would use it for something simple like backyard home improvement projects. Would also have loved to learn the progression of history in a more visual way.