• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      6 days ago

      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.

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      6 days ago

      i’ll take a shot.

      1. education: these are the pyramids of giza. this is what they used to look like.

      2. real eatate: generate an image of how the development of somethjng would look

      3. business: generate a map with detaled renederings of all their locations.

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      6 days ago

      I work in this space: you can use it to mock up commercial developments, changes in land use, etc., to see what it would look like. Somewhat useful when presenting rather dry architectural diagrams into realistic looking scenes.

      Now, why it was broadly opened to the public is unclear to me other than being a flex?

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        6 days ago

        you can use it to mock up commercial developments

        Fair, but aren’t there better solutions for this already?

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          6 days ago

          Depends on how you define “better.” You can generate many variants of a scene this way, at night say, or in snowy conditions. You can mock up emergency response situations. It’s part of the story you’re telling but not a straight up replacement.