Death by AI

I really wish Google had some kind of global “I don’t want any identifiably AI-generated content hitting my retinas, ever” checkbox.

Too much to ask, surely.

That's just Google Maps being Google Maps, as anyone who has used them since 2005 can tell you.

I can see a bright future in blaming things on AI that have nothing to do with AI, at least on here.

The road outside my house was widened into a highway more than five years ago. To this day, Google Maps still asks me to take detours that were only active during construction. I have reported this ad nauseum. Nothing. It also keeps telling me to turn from the service lanes onto the highway at points that only pedestrians walk across. More than once, it's asked me to take illegal turns or go the wrong way up a one way street (probably because people on motorbikes go that).

Whatever method they use to update their data is broken, or they do not care about countries our size enough to make sure it is reasonably correct and up-to-date.