Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is it just reading metadata and pretending it’s doing something impressive?

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s doing what the Geo Guesser-like people do.

    Like ‘this kind of rock formation only appears in Eastern Europe, the wheel you see in the lower left of the screen has Cyrillic writing and if you look in eastern Europe there is one mountain formation that looks like the picture when viewed from a specific angle and so they had to be within this 50m circle’.

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    • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eh, kind of both.

      When researchers peeked into which areas of the image were being used, it showed that the tiny camera watermark from the Google Streetview car was being used by the model a lot.

      That is, the recognition system had learned all the routes every Google Street view car had taken, and was using that in its recognition process.

      Not all images have this watermark though, so in the cases the watermark didn’t exist it then resorts to more traditional geoguessr tactics.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is the kind of thing that machine learning is very very good at. Its never going to be perfect but its definitely gonna outperform humans.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Download some pictures and ask ChatGPT thinking to find the locations.

      It’s already trained on geoguesser data, even if that wasn’t a core feature.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not hard. I once saw a random “what is this thing” photo from a bad angle. But it included a store in the background. Only two stores in North America with that name, though Google map search tried to be helpful and return a bunch of other results. Easy enough to check both.

      Even with the extra street view angles I couldn’t figure out what the thing was though :(

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  —We know where you are!!
  —Yeah, so do I.

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• pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not gonna lie, I’d like to use this geotag a bunch of photos that I dont have location tagged to it.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    NO CITIZEN BENEFIT! SURVEILLANCE USES ONLY!

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• anghenfil@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Would be funny if it’s just an API call to OpenAI in the backend

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  • mayabuttreeks@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Funnier if it just funneled all requests to the GeoGuessr dude.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Do you funnel all requests to the GeoGuessr dude website?” “No.” “Be a lot cooler if you did.”

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      human-as-a-service

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