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Death by AI

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583 points ano-ther | 2 comments | 19 Jul 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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FeteCommuniste ◴[20 Jul 25 00:25 UTC] No.44620771[source]▶
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.

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CamperBob2 ◴[20 Jul 25 02:41 UTC] No.44621511[source]▶
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.

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nullc ◴[20 Jul 25 05:13 UTC] No.44622176[source]▶
In 2005 or 2006 google maps gave me directions that would have gotten me a ticket (I know because I'd previously gotten a ticket by accidentally taking the same route). I emailed. A human responded back and thanked me, and they corrected the behavior.

Many things have changed since then.

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michaelcampbell ◴[20 Jul 25 13:08 UTC] No.44624866{3}[source]▶
Curious what the situation is that would have given you a ticket for taking a particular route; was it a legal "no through traffic" or going the wrong way down a 1-way street?

How does the police force distinguish between a map route and people randomly bumbling there? Were there signs that were ignored?

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1. nullc ◴[20 Jul 25 18:15 UTC] No.44627760{4}[source]▶
In Herndon, VA near dulles airport there is a toll road that extends into DC. However, if you enter the toll road from the airport you get into special divided lanes that are toll-free for traffic to/from the airport. (Or at least there was two decades ago)

I got a ticket that way once when I was visiting because I only knew how to get back to my hotel from the airport so I drove to the airport then to the hotel-- and I guess the police watch for people looping through the airport to avoid the tolls. In my case I wasn't aware of the weird toll/no-toll thing-- I was just lost and more concerned with finding my hotel than the posted 'no through traffic' signs.

Later, after moving to VA, I noticed google maps was explicitly routing trips from near the airport to other places to take a loop through the airport to minimize toll costs which would have been quite clever if it weren't prohibited.

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2. michaelcampbell ◴[22 Jul 25 17:01 UTC] No.44650014[source]▶
haha, wow. I've only driven THROUGH VA a few times and had a sphincter pucker almost the entire way just because of reputation. That's nuts.