Some people put a lot more effort into their photos than I do! Although as they selected people with 100k+ followers I guess taking good photos is basically work for them (or rather their patient partners).
The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
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#22very thought-provoking - people think only a portion of what they’re doing is shared, but government sees all
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#23I wonder what the storage requirements for video from multiple traffic cameras for weeks is? A few TB per day?
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#24What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?
A really famous spot in Dublin is the Temple Bar (Red bar in examples). They have live cameras in HD available inside and out https://worldcams.tv/ireland/dublin/temple-bar
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#25Not creepy at all
How is this any more creepy than any of the other people in those public locations videoing the same thing? Every day, you are recorded by hundreds of cameras, and a lot of those cameras are privately owned/operated. Specifically, I'm talking about people's smart phones. No matter where you go, just take a look around you, and you will probably be in someone else's camera frame.
There is no expectation of privacy in public. This just drives it home.
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#26Not creepy at all
How is this any more creepy than any of the other people in those public locations videoing the same thing? Every day, you are recorded by hundreds of cameras, and a lot of those cameras are privately owned/operated. Specifically, I'm talking about people's smart phones. No matter where you go, just take a look around you, and you will probably be in someone else's camera frame. There is no expectation of privacy in…
Both are really creepy. It becomes more creepy when you go from a recorded video that no one really watches to one systematically analyzed with AI though.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
The machine learning element isn't really needed if the instagram posts are tagged by date/time...
You could have taken the picture a day before or am I missing something? The post date/time itself does not mean much.
Many (most?) photos have EXIF tags with timestamps showing when the picture was actually taken, regardless of when it was posted. But given the amount of post-processing that likely happens to Instagram photos, I would not be surprised if that info was stripped out entirely, or at least altered.
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#28Some of the photographers and subjects seem to know exactly the right angles to appear more "fit."
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#29That is actually pretty freaking cool. Not hard to do by any means, just cool.
I think it's harder than it looks to do it reliably and automatically.
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#30Not creepy at all
How is this any more creepy than any of the other people in those public locations videoing the same thing? Every day, you are recorded by hundreds of cameras, and a lot of those cameras are privately owned/operated. Specifically, I'm talking about people's smart phones. No matter where you go, just take a look around you, and you will probably be in someone else's camera frame. There is no expectation of privacy in…
It's creepier because it's connecting it to real life people's accounts, meaning anyone can then trace that person in the video and find out so much more about their life or stalk them etc.