#AI for Disasters

[ajaydmr]

Global Disaster Preparedness Systems Market 2025: Industry Size, Share, Growth Factors & Forecast

In today’s volatile world—marked by rising climate emergencies, cyber threats, and public health crises—the Disaster Preparedness Systems Market is gaining significant traction. It offers advanced technologies and solutions that help governments, institutions, and industries prepare for, respond to, and recover from unforeseen disasters.

Market Overview

The global disaster preparedness market is projected to reach USD 415.4 billion by 2032, expanding at a robust CAGR of 9.2%. From early warning systems and communication tools to recovery planning and consulting services, this market supports every phase of disaster management.

It addresses a wide range of hazards—natural disasters such as floods, wildfires, and earthquakes, as well as man-made crises like cyberattacks and infrastructure failures.

What’s Driving the Growth?

Climate Change: Extreme weather events and natural calamities are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity.

Digital Vulnerability: Cybersecurity threats and IT failures have pushed businesses to adopt comprehensive disaster recovery plans.

Compliance and Regulation: Stricter policies in sectors like BFSI are fueling demand for structured disaster preparedness frameworks.

Key Market Segments

✔ Surveillance Systems

Commanding 37.15% of the market share in 2023, these systems provide critical real-time data to support early intervention, threat detection, and post-event analysis.

✔ Disaster Recovery Solutions

Crucial for business continuity, these tools ensure organizations can rapidly restore operations, protect data, and maintain compliance during emergencies.

✔ Emergency Response Radars

These technologies lead the communication segment, offering precision alerts and enhancing emergency coordination during fast-moving crises.

✔ Consulting Services

With the highest share in the services category, consulting helps businesses build customized disaster strategies, conduct risk assessments, and align with evolving regulatory standards.

✔ BFSI Sector Leadership

Due to its critical economic role, the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry is a major user of disaster preparedness systems, ensuring security of operations and customer data.

Regional Outlook

North America remains the leading region due to its strong investment in infrastructure and emergency technologies.

Asia-Pacific and Europe are emerging as high-growth regions driven by increased awareness, climate-related vulnerabilities, and regional collaborations.

Competitive Landscape

Top players like IBM, Siemens, Honeywell, and Motorola Solutions are driving innovation with AI, IoT, and smart analytics. Strategic partnerships with governments and public agencies continue to expand their global footprint and solution offerings.

Impact of COVID-19 and Recession

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped global priorities, placing disaster preparedness at the forefront of infrastructure and digital planning. Even amid economic challenges, organizations are prioritizing investments in technologies that ensure safety, continuity, and resilience.

Recent Developments

December 2023 – Yukon’s government launched 42 new disaster-readiness and sustainability projects under its Our Clean Future strategy.

December 2023 – Education Cannot Wait allocated a $2.8M grant to the Global Education Cluster to improve preparedness in emergency education.

September 2023 – Google launched an Earthquake Alert System in India for Android, using accelerometers in smartphones and developed with NDMA and NSC.

June 2023 – The World Bank introduced Climate Resilient Debt Clauses and a comprehensive toolkit for disaster response and financing.

April 2023 – WHO’s PRET Initiative was rolled out to improve pandemic response strategies through transmission-specific planning.

Who Should Engage with This Market?

Government agencies responsible for disaster planning and emergency services

Corporations focused on business continuity, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance

Technology providers and consultants building intelligent response and recovery tools

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Final Thoughts

As the risks facing our world grow more complex, disaster preparedness is no longer optional—it’s essential. The Disaster Preparedness Systems Market is enabling smarter, faster, and more reliable crisis management strategies, shaping a safer and more resilient global future.

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

[3uhedral]

Skeleton girl!

[reasonsforhope]

"The first satellite in a constellation designed specifically to locate wildfires early and precisely anywhere on the planet has now reached Earth's orbit, and it could forever change how we tackle unplanned infernos.

The FireSat constellation, which will consist of more than 50 satellites when it goes live, is the first of its kind that's purpose-built to detect and track fires. It's an initiative launched by nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, which includes Google and Silicon Valley-based space services startup Muon Space as partners, among others.

According to Google, current satellite systems rely on low-resolution imagery and cover a particular area only once every 12 hours to spot significantly large wildfires spanning a couple of acres. FireSat, on the other hand, will be able to detect wildfires as small as 270 sq ft (25 sq m) – the size of a classroom – and deliver high-resolution visual updates every 20 minutes.

The FireSat project has only been in the works for less than a year and a half. The satellites are fitted with custom six-band multispectral infrared cameras, designed to capture imagery suitable for machine learning algorithms to accurately identify wildfires – differentiating them from misleading objects like smokestacks.

These algorithms look at an image from a particular location, and compare it with the last 1,000 times it was captured by the satellite's camera to determine if what it's seeing is indeed a wildfire. AI technology in the FireSat system also helps predict how a fire might spread; that can help firefighters make better decisions about how to control the flames safely and effectively.

This could go a long way towards preventing the immense destruction of forest habitats and urban areas, and the displacement of residents caused by wildfires each year. For reference, the deadly wildfires that raged across Los Angeles in January were estimated to have cuased more than $250 billion in damages.

Muon is currently developing three more satellites, which are set to launch next year. The entire constellation should be in orbit by 2030.

The FireSat effort isn't the only project to watch for wildfires from orbit. OroraTech launched its first wildfire-detection satellite – FOREST-1 – in 2022, followed by one more in 2023 and another earlier this year. The company tells us that another eight are due to go up toward the end of March."

-via March 18, 2025

[gallade-x-treme]

setsuna. again. that's poison.

[mellosdrawings]

I'm feeling like rambling about AI on main, ignore me if it's not your cup of tea.

So a while ago, I did check out those art prompts AI, because when I pester about something, I like to know what I'm rambling about. I like to do a minimum of research and, if possible, try the thing out before making my opinion. For AI art, my opinion was already pretty solid, but I still wanted to check it out.

I found a free prompt stuff online, asked it a super easy prompt, and asked for a handful of different images. Just to see.

The prompt was [character tripping]. Really. Super easy, right? I wanted the thing to have as much liberty as possible.

It's not just that though. I chose this prompt because it is something I did in art school. Our teacher would give us simple prompts, and we would have to draw doodles in 5 minutes or less. Imagine a class of 15 exhausted art students full of caffeine being told to draw someone tripping.

The 15 art students' results? Little boys tripping over tree roots, teenage girls falling while rollskating, business men tripping on their papers and burning themselves with coffee, old ladies cracking a hip, comical falls backwards with a leg up, realistic falls forward with pained expressions, etc etc.

See, our fast doodles weren't any better than AI anatomically speaking. We were missing hands and our faces were distorted and a foot was bigger than another, things that are also common with AI. But the DIVERSITY. I remember being flabbergasted by it. We all had the same prompt, but none of us drew the same thing. I remember drawing the good old banana peel slip from the old comics I read when I was a kid. My best friend drew a kid falling in mud.

We did several prompts like that as training, and I always loved to see what everybody was doing, because it was always so different.

Now, here was the AI result: 5 anime girls in a running position at an angle, making shocked pikachu faces. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. The angle and the running poses were the only things that changed, and even then just slightly.

The AI only did 5 times the same stuff. Art style changed a bit from one to the other, but always the same vibe, always the same composition, and always that godsdamned shocked pikachu face. It was very underwhelming.

I don't care about perfect anatomy and lighting. But I care about creativity. I love seeing things that I would never have thought to do myself. And the AI didn't provide that at all. Coz AI has no creativity whatsoever. If you don't further your prompt to be very specific, it will just reheat the same bland stuff again and again. It's just boring.

I have a lot of grievances about AI. Art theft, environmental blunder, artists being paid even less than they already were (as if people and companies suggesting to pay us in visibility wasn't bad enough). But even on an emotional level there's nothing. Yes, it's great to see one's character/idea brought to life when one cannot draw. But it'll be the blandest stuff ever. That's just a shame.

[softmio]

I forgot I animated this , so cute 🥰

[agentc0rn]

Lonely earth-bound monarch figures whose existences and legacies extend past the bounds of time and space.

[alaa-al-khateeb]

It was as if an atomic bomb hit Gaza. The effects of the devastating war on people & stones on Gaza, Palestine, which lasted 471 days, destroyed my beautiful city & took life out of it.

[metamorphicmuse]

Landslide

for @thepromptfoundry May 19th challenge.

[sentivium]

omg this is so disturbing

so many startups AI companies in LA, are they hit badly?

[varusai]

Google spent $100 billion on this

[undergroundusa]

"I think that the $50 million spent on condoms for Palestinians in Gaza or free benefits for people who have broken the law to be here in the first place, could be better spent on Americans in need right here in the US. But hey, I’m not an appointed spendthrift, so what do I know…"

READ & LISTEN NOW: https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/taxpayer-dollars-cant-be-considered

[oneglass-zinfandel]

ULTIMATE LINK-TREE

For anyone looking thru my profile trying to find something specific, here's links to anything I might have posted that you'd like to find<3

KEEP IN MIND I HAVE MY PERSONAL LIFE AND ILL GET TO EVERYTHING WHEN I CAN, WHEN IM ON A BREAK YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED

Smut ★

Warnings † (could be something tiny)

No Warnings No Smut ∞

Introduction / what I write - MUST READ

Who I will write for - Masterlist

Bot Request Forum + all my AI links - here

Sims 4 OC's + Janitor AI bots of them -

Pt.1 Pt.2 Pt.3 Pt.4 Pt.5

Sims 4 Bedrooms -

Femcel room

Fanfiction:

Squid Game: nothing's here...

Harry Potter:

Ron Weasley - Hungry Heat ★

Slytherin Boys Respond to.. - pt.1 ∞ pt.2 ∞

Slytherin Boys Links - pt.1★

Creepypasta:

Gryffindor Boys Links - pt 1★

+ General p!links - pt.1★

Ben Drowned - How I see him †

Obey me:

Mammon - Movie night, Cuddle Night ∞

Leviathan - Comforting Nightmares †

Beelzebub - Baking with Beelzebub †

All - Places for Dates †

Ranfren: nothing's here...

Visual Novel:

John Doe - Love me love me Love me ★

TDLOSK: nothing's here..

KEEP IN MIND I HAVE MY PERSONAL LIFE AND ILL GET TO EVERYTHING WHEN I CAN, WHEN IM ON A BREAK YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED

I will update this regularly so please stay tuned<3

[aytonai]

The Battle for Babel

[good-fwiend-in-wome]

everyone under that post about the midjourney lawsuit is like "oh man i never thought I'd be on the side of disney and universal but fuck em up!" and like. maybe. just maybe. you should consider if the fact that you have ended up on the side of disney is a reflection of the fact that you may have gone wrong somewhere. like have you actually stopped for a moment and thought about why you're agreeing on copyright with the company who kept anything from entering the public domain for decades just to keep their rights to a fucking mouse. have you considered the possibility that maybe calling statistical analysis of public images on the internet "stealing" is a fucking insane position.