Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo • Hacker News Board

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by echelon » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:48 AM UTC

buildbot wrote: post #6

At the risk of sounding stereotypically skeptical, how do we know there's not a person behind the AI curtain, geo-guessing?

Rainbolt is one of the world's best GeoGuessr players:

https://www.youtube.com/@rainbolttwo/featured

AI repeatedly winning against him in a head-to-head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts5lPDV--cU

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by lmm » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:48 AM UTC

buildbot wrote: post #6

At the risk of sounding stereotypically skeptical, how do we know there's not a person behind the AI curtain, geo-guessing?

Does it matter? If this is something that can now be done cheaply then the effects of that are much the same whether it's an AI or not.

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by notpastori » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:49 AM UTC

I know Rainbolt is handsome, but calling him a vision model maybe is bit of a stretch.

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by minimaxir » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:50 AM UTC

JSDevOps wrote: post #10

How do they know it’s not from EXIF data?

Most social media strips EXIF data to avoid that exact privacy problem.

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by whatever1 » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:50 AM UTC

I wonder how many more capabilities the military info apparatus gained in the past few years.

Sounds terrifying

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by ben_w » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:51 AM UTC

JSDevOps wrote: post #10

How do they know it’s not from EXIF data?

That would probably be closer than 15 miles.

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by tgv » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:53 AM UTC

So, someone, probably a group, made the effort to build a system that can infer location from a picture. The negatives are obvious. What possible beneficial uses can it have?

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:53 AM UTC

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Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by welder » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:54 AM UTC

This has been a thing for a while, pre LLMs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wherewasthistaken

https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis

https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT

Re: Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

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Post by maxglute » Thu, May 02, 2024, 6:54 AM UTC

I plugged in satelite view of pacific islands and it's giving random guesses. I used some of the source images listed on the bottom, one's with properly labelled island name, and it's still giving random guesses.

Random streetview shots seems to guess countries correctly so far, or at least region with similar construction. But that still means being (confidently) off by 1000s of km.