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Re: They See Your Photos

#53
post #10

Reads like a horoscope, just vague stuff that's always gonna be slightly true... Picture of me in Oslo and it says "he enjoys travel". And then some really weird stuff: "he may also have a penchant for video games, excessive drinking, and skipping work". Guessing my exact location - Oslo Opera House - was impressive though.

> His agnostic leanings and heterosexual orientation align with a more liberal political stance.

That's a very safe guess

> He is susceptible to confirmation bias, in-group bias, the availability heuristic and out-group homogeneity... he may also be prone to excessive phone use, binge-watching TV shows, and impulse buying.

That's literally everyone

Re: They See Your Photos

#54
post #43

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.

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Re: They See Your Photos

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post #43

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.

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Re: They See Your Photos

#56
It's hard to know what to make of this. It feels like it's listing stereotypes and superficial guesses. The tool accurately detected my age, my ethnicity and my location. Then it just kind of "vibed out" a bunch of things. Some of those vibes are strangely accurate on their own, but taken together the set of guesses is laughably inaccurate.

It would be interesting to do a similar with a series of photos. You could maybe interface with a users' photo library and select photos grouped by facial recognition. After all, none of these tracking companies are using just one point of data.

Re: They See Your Photos

#57
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it uses exif data for that, because when I tried it did show my location but the vision api was overloaded, so nothing more showed up.

Nope, I uploaded some exif-less photos and in my cases it guessed between somewhat well to astonishing well.

That's (scarily) pretty standard for most LLMs by now. Paste the same images into ChatGPT and you will get a very accurate guess

It's also pretty fun to do this with Gemma 4 with its very pretty and structured reasoning output (which SotA model providers hide). For example for one picture that it misidentified as being taken inside the "Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin" I can see that it did consider the correct answer (Duke Humfrey's Library in Oxford) early on as one of three candidates, but was apparently mislead by the ceiling height and a window in the background

Re: They See Your Photos

#58
post #43

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.

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this doesn't even pass a basic logic test, why would be wounded make us seek something we want in ourselves and being whole make us seek something we aren't? there are plenty of people of any gender that have any quality you may be seeking

you can't just make something up in your head and apply it to everyone

Re: They See Your Photos

#59
I uploaded a picture of a board game table from when I was playing with friends last week. Other than the obvious (they’re friends who like playing board games) it got literally everything wrong. It was in Asia and it guessed a western city. The ethnicity, sexuality, median income, and political views it prescribed to us were all hilariously inaccurate.

Re: They See Your Photos

#60
From the generated descriptions of the sample images, it looks like their prompt is asking for a vaguely center-right gloss on demographics? Is that the agenda of the site operators, or an appeal to presumed paranoid libertarian site visitor?
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