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

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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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How well would it work if the scenery is not from a road mapped by Google Street View? Like in, the actual nature?

there are services for photo sharing with location data (panoramio for example) that could be used for training.

Google Maps and Google Earth also lets you share.

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

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post #39

Original link https://geospy.ai/ . Pretty scary stuff, I took a picture of one tree, got pinpointed to 4 km.

Gotta wonder why you'd even develop that. This thing seems to have essentially no value for for anyone but bad actors?

location scouting for filmmakers

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

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post #24

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.

Satellite view? This is about street-level photos… I don't think you would mix these two things in the same model, it'd just dilute the capabilities on both.

> I don't think you would mix these two things in the same model, it'd just dilute the capabilities on both.

I'm not sure. Isn't the consensus that neural networks get better, if you make them bigger and give them harder problems?

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

#57

How well would it work if the scenery is not from a road mapped by Google Street View? Like in, the actual nature?

I gave it a selfie from the middle of some forest in Yellowstone and it nailed it. No signs or anything obvious, just a bunch of trees (also scrubbed EXIF).

I gave it a much harder photo from the Borrego Badlands, and it got SoCal, but was 200mi off.

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

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post #39

Original link https://geospy.ai/ . Pretty scary stuff, I took a picture of one tree, got pinpointed to 4 km.

Gotta wonder why you'd even develop that. This thing seems to have essentially no value for for anyone but bad actors?

Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.

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

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post #58
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta wonder why you'd even develop that. This thing seems to have essentially no value for for anyone but bad actors?

Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.

Just hire people from the geoguessr leaderboards, they are much better than this AI model. And every country employing like one or two such people and making them available to their police agencies is probably more than they could ever need.

You might think making an AI model will be cheaper, but if you commoditize it like this the additional police work from stalkers will outweigh any savings by multiple orders of magnitude

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