For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.
And I just assumed they called Rainbolt
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Can’t you also attempt exif data?
The article is clipped. Is there a non-paywalled version
So, take pictures in monochrome or apply some kind of filters is what you’re saying?
the article mentions that the tool takes into consideration architecture, distance between buildings and so on. i think youd have to mess up the backgrounds somehow
Use generative AI to replace the background of all photos. I’m sure someone will come up with an app that does this automatically one day
We’re getting closer and closer to a scanner darkly.
I was searching for the title of that movie a while ago. Thanks.
I wasn’t impressed. Apart from the they provide for the demo, it found none of my photos.
Perhaps it gets better next time you repost?
Geoguessr players: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
What if the Geoguesser players are the AI?
The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Other Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds
FIFY
This has always been possible with anything anyone has ever posted publicly before social media. I’m glad sheeple are waking up.
https://xkcd.com/1013
I played with this a couple times. Once it located a nondescript stream in the UP of Michigan to within 200 miles. It knew the picture was taken in the UP. The second was a ferry dock in a foreign country (English speaking). It found a sign and that misdirected it to the other side of the country.
It was free but mostly used by stalkers. It was very accurate. Now it’s closed to the public because it’s very profitable, and only the police are using it. Congrats to the developers! You made it. You sold your neighbors’ safety to the oligarchs and their goons and now you can retire on a yacht, fanning yourself with money while the world burns.
Seriously. Fuck all the tech and programmer guys helping to accelerate our doom and subjugation.
the programmers should at least use licenses that prevent legal use by the police and government agencies.
LOL. Rules and laws are for the working class. Even if selling the data elsewhere or to a shell corporation wouldn’t work, some other legal fiction would be invented for the occasion.
And this isn’t a recent phenomenon, this is just how we’ve always lived our lives.
America was never great, but it could be.
Which excludes FOSS maintainers. Who should be well funded to protect our tech stacks from neglect.
Whatever you are scared of.
I’m scared of this more
foss spyware is still spyware