Man, that is creepy as hell. Perhaps it can be useful to really bring home to people how they're being spied on every day.
Why is it creepy? The influencers already publicly posted their location and photo.
The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
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#52I realised what they were doing on the second photo/video. OMG that's the most terrifying thing I have seen in ages. Amazing, innovative, tipping-point-sign, but still, terrifying
I was scared at first too until I realized we're talking about people already taking photos for the purpose of posting to Instagram anyway. It's involuntary surveillance while participating in voluntary surveillance.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's how a lot of license plate reader features for surveillance cameras already work.
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#54Can someone explain to a novice how “AI” is used here? Is the person in the IG image being correlated to a security camera time stamp with face recognition or similar?
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#55This is why I have no social media accounts. No one knows what I am up to. No one knows where I have been. No one can find me. Do not track is now a lift style.
you can be found easily if someone really wanted to. social media is just one way you can be tracked
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#56What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?
There are a whole bunch here: https://www.earthcam.com/mapsearch/
This reminds me of an old 4chan "prank". There was an open camera somewhere in New York(?) and in the view was a shop with various display stands. Users would post something like "Im gonna do it, watch!", everyone would start watching the video feed and like half an hour or so later a kid would run up and knock over one of displays. They'd just fuck with the poor shop owner whenever they were bored.
Edit: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/nyc-cardstand-earthcam...
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#57Some 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).
There's something about it that's so undignified, and cringe inducing to me. To see someone pose, repose, inspect, repose, etc. I just could never want to put that much effort into how I'm appearing. The faux spontaneity is just so off-putting.
Seeing how the sausage is made almost always results in disillusionment regardless of the industry.
Some of the magic was taken away when I learned that certain scenes a movie I liked required dozens of takes: it felt too mechanical/industrial and went against my romantic notions of how art is made. This is not far off from the pose-repose-inspect cycle you noted, but has a much larger supporting crew (and budget) and far longer hours.
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#58Can someone explain to a novice how “AI” is used here? Is the person in the IG image being correlated to a security camera time stamp with face recognition or similar?
It is using computer vision to compare the instagram photo with the recorded 'open camera' footage to give the best guess at a timestamp. You can see the CV drawing boxes around the objects it is identifying in the footage on the right side, and it already knows that the photo was taken at the location (since the location tag was used that to scrape the photos), so it is basically just hunting for a person that best matches the subject in the instagram photo.
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#59What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?
Considering the open camera "feeds" have the bounding boxes around people, I guess they're CCTVs mistakenly put on the open Internet, findable through some services (can't remember the name of a famous one). Well actually he probably added the bounding boxes. DDG result for "Dublin Temple Bar livestream": https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar
The Temple Bar (Dublin) actually makes this publicly available. They also have a feed of the inside of the bar so that you can virtually experience Ireland.
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#60Man, that is creepy as hell. Perhaps it can be useful to really bring home to people how they're being spied on every day.
Why is it creepy? The influencers already publicly posted their location and photo.
What makes an "influencer" less deserving of privacy in the dimensions they haven't shared? Furthermore, what makes someone an influencer, when this technique can be used on smaller accounts, too.