Live data from Hacker News

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

twitter.com

61–67 of 67 posts

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

#61
post #45
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?

Imagine: you’re abducted, but manage to sneak a photo and upload it somewhere completely random with a message for help. You don’t even know where you are.

Praise the lord, now I can leave my house without fear of being abducted.

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

#62
post #12
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.

Mechanical turks aren’t news.

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

#64

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

When I show it random shots of mountainous jungle terrain from my patio (the view is long, maybe 20km in total…) if gets my location within 10-50km consistently.

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

#65
post #53
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> if you make them bigger and give them harder problems?

I mean… maybe… but that also makes them more expensive to run…

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

#66
I'm not convinced this is doing much - images with exif geo data seemed to just return the location literally described in the image. Images with no exif data returned every image location based on my IP location - a city a few 100 miles away from me, and even further from where the pictures were taken.

Some of them (pictures of a small town beach) were described as:

"The photo was taken from a boat in the XYZ Harbour, looking towards the city of . The distinctive shape of the Tower can be seen in the background. The ferry terminal is also visible on the left side of the photo."

needless to say, the tiny town in question is about 300km from the city mentioned, it does not have a single tower (I think it may be looking at a traffic pole?), and does not have a ferry terminal (there was a boat in the picture).

Post reply on HN