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Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

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Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by olmo23 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

bestouff wrote: post #23

aozgaa wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's possible the image you uploaded contains geographic coordinates. EDIT: this is exactly what happened with my image upload, for example

I thought about that but no, they were resized pictures completely lacking EXIF tags.

Cropping doesn't necessarily remove exif. It doesn't even always remove the original pixels (simply setting cropTop and cropLeft and similar fields).

My mind was blown when I saw rainbolt uncrop a picture.

Anyways as mentioned elsewhere: when I tried it the vision api was overloaded but I still received the location data. And it was from a picture taken inside my car (no landmarks or horizons visible).

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by aledevv » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

On 4th example photo the model says:

>They likely share an agnostic worldview and identify as heterosexual.

I wonder how the model would know that they are heterosexuals?

let's be careful about categorizing people so easily and in such a simplistic way.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by madamelic » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

mns wrote: post #34

Is this one of those things like the old Facebook games where people were answering personal questions that can be used to guess all kind of secret answers for taking over accounts? Are people actually uploading real photos of themselves here?

It's also wild it is coming from a password manager company (Ente) which already holds a lot of this information.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:11 PM UTC

fullstick wrote: post #21

fullstick wrote: post #14

The description it generated is a stereotype of who I am. It did correctly asses that I'm white though.

It also suggested my income is about a 3rd of what it really is, but the lower income is more inline with the stereotype.

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Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by tom1337 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

> Interests: Hiking, photography, travel, gambling, substance abuse, binge-watching

> Biases: Ageism, fatphobia, colorism, classism

excuse me?

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by ibdf » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

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Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by XCSme » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

It just describes what's in the photo and then some completely wrong/random facts about self-esteem, income, religion, etc.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by harvey9 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC

pndy wrote: post #32

That's the 5th time this site is being added, most active discussion happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419469 I'm not sure if feeding it with personal pictures is a good idea at all

I sent it an AI generated photorealistic picture I happened to have. It gave me a description of the picture (a doctor in an OR) followed by some generic stuff about how rich doctors spend their money.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by craigmart » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC

Except for guessing the right continent (not that remarkable), mine is so majestically wrong that I would either dislike or fully hate all of the products I got recommended.