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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 39 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

What was even the point of this; what was the intended use case?

I'm serious, I have no idea who this is for. Other than to show people that their AI can badly superimpose pictures of Godzilla over maps.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 29 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's easier for the news and the government to deepfake things like "huge mobs of Mexican narcoterrorists just over the border" or "there's a nuclear missile silo in Iran" or whatever with this.

[–] THB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's weird to make it public if that's the case.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Nah, that just helps to normalize it and let people think it's just harmless and fun.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In large organizations when the order comes down from on high that 'we are all in on whatever' AI in this case, middle managers and product owners start looking for ways to ram that thing into their product so they can keep playing the game.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 7 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

So it's just another solution in search of a problem basically?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 42 minutes ago

That's the whole story from the beginning. It's not good and trustworthy enough for the real work but they've poured all that money in there so it needs to be used.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 45 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's worse than all that. I clicked on all the Xitter links so you wouldn't have to, at the bottom is this post from this guy who was able to put a photorealistic image of a nuke plant in Iran, and a throng of migrants at the US-Mexican border, both of which didn't exist in the source material:

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

We know that this didn't come out of a vacuum, this capability has been there and was only recently released to the public. We also know that this Administration is in very close with all the tech bros enshittifying everything, and they like to lie, especially about history.

So, now we know what the October Surprise before this election is going to be: the Administration is going to use fake satellite imagery to rile everyone up. We'll be lucky if they don't drop some nukes in the process....

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 minutes ago

Ahhhh damit! I'd have loved to have used it to create a giant Trump hippo splattering poop across the White House lawn and where the new ballroom is.. Oh well. Wasn't fast enough to enjoy the fun.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 49 minutes ago

My neighbor about to be host to several mercenaries

I think they do this to promote their new SynthID.

[–] Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I remember someone renaming NYC to jewtropolis on some navigation app I think

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago