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Original link https://geospy.ai/ https://geospy.ai/. Pretty scary stuff, I took a picture of one tree, got pinpointed to 4 km.

smartbit 2y ago
Took a picture and it recognized the architecture style, guessed the wrong town 60km away.
- qrios 2y ago
  Same here: Picture from rural Austria in the North and it comes up with Hungaria. Location is in the center of Budapest, 300km distance to the original view point. But architectual style looks really hungarian.
RGamma 2y ago
Gotta wonder why you'd even develop that. This thing seems to have essentially no value for for anyone but bad actors?
- sshine 2y ago
  Imagine: you’re abducted, but manage to sneak a photo and upload it somewhere completely random with a message for help. You don’t even know where you are.
  - ifyoubuildit 2y ago
    Praise the lord, now I can leave my house without fear of being abducted.
- bojan 2y ago
  It can do wonders for OSINT and disproving propaganda (for what's that worth).
- RobinL 2y ago
  Feels like there could be anti fake news applications. It's pretty common for photos to be recycled and purported to be of current events, when what they actually show is far away both in distance and time
- youssefabdelm 2y ago
  location scouting for filmmakers
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- ghnws 2y ago
  Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.
  - wongarsu 2y ago
    Just hire people from the geoguessr leaderboards, they are much better than this AI model. And every country employing like one or two such people and making them available to their police agencies is probably more than they could ever need. You might think making an AI model will be cheaper, but if you commoditize it like this the additional police work from stalkers will outweigh any savings by multiple orders of magnitude
drbig 2y ago
Um, no. Did a test and the results are neither scary nor wowing me now: 1) Easy mode: Cityscape of Naples, Italy; Bot 100% match, nice, I guess. 2) Mid-mode: A road in Glenoak Hills, CA; Bot says Malibu, CA... Never been there. 3) Hard-mode: Main lake in Ostróda, Poland; Bot says it's in Manhattan and that the vegetation matches Northern American :-D Ahahaha, didn't even get the continent right so... Note: Tested on personal photos, with EXIF stripped, not widely/at all uploaded to the nets. So... perhaps works great if you feed it back stock photos you've grabbed from the first result of a google search? Because my mileage is barely an inch.

smartbit 2y ago

Took a picture and it recognized the architecture style, guessed the wrong town 60km away.

qrios 2y ago
Same here: Picture from rural Austria in the North and it comes up with Hungaria. Location is in the center of Budapest, 300km distance to the original view point. But architectual style looks really hungarian.

RGamma 2y ago

Gotta wonder why you'd even develop that. This thing seems to have essentially no value for for anyone but bad actors?

sshine 2y ago
Imagine: you’re abducted, but manage to sneak a photo and upload it somewhere completely random with a message for help. You don’t even know where you are.
- ifyoubuildit 2y ago
  Praise the lord, now I can leave my house without fear of being abducted.
bojan 2y ago
It can do wonders for OSINT and disproving propaganda (for what's that worth).
RobinL 2y ago
Feels like there could be anti fake news applications. It's pretty common for photos to be recycled and purported to be of current events, when what they actually show is far away both in distance and time
youssefabdelm 2y ago
location scouting for filmmakers
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
ghnws 2y ago
Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.
- wongarsu 2y ago
  Just hire people from the geoguessr leaderboards, they are much better than this AI model. And every country employing like one or two such people and making them available to their police agencies is probably more than they could ever need. You might think making an AI model will be cheaper, but if you commoditize it like this the additional police work from stalkers will outweigh any savings by multiple orders of magnitude

drbig 2y ago

Um, no. Did a test and the results are neither scary nor wowing me now: 1) Easy mode: Cityscape of Naples, Italy; Bot 100% match, nice, I guess. 2) Mid-mode: A road in Glenoak Hills, CA; Bot says Malibu, CA... Never been there. 3) Hard-mode: Main lake in Ostróda, Poland; Bot says it's in Manhattan and that the vegetation matches Northern American :-D Ahahaha, didn't even get the continent right so... Note: Tested on personal photos, with EXIF stripped, not widely/at all uploaded to the nets. So... perhaps works great if you feed it back stock photos you've grabbed from the first result of a google search? Because my mileage is barely an inch.