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The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#82

Some of the photographers and subjects seem to know exactly the right angles to appear more "fit."

Yes, this is common

To detect faux-lean people you can understand that the angle shot has evolved to being from a low angle to the ground

And also wearing black should immediately be a flag for further scrutiny

It is the first suggestion for slimming attire and it is for the optical illusion for their own confidence and having other people want to engage with them

As if there is some awareness that everyone stopped saying anything about it but still aren’t personally interested

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#83

This is why I have no social media accounts. No one knows what I am up to. No one knows where I have been. No one can find me. Do not track is now a lift style.

This involves actually going out of your way to posting and tag the location

But you dont have social media so you wouldnt know

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#84
I highly doubt AI is being used here to match up the Open Camera footage with the instagram pic. Identifing humans as an object within a frame is trivial. Identifying individuals requires a considerable amount of custom training which is more than what is available from an instagram pic and a few video frames. I'm not saying it can't be done, it's just not that easy. I'd bet $100 bucks that most, if not all, of these matches were accomplished using good old stalking (matching post times to manually reviewing video data). Would be happily proven wrong but without any source code provided I stand firm with my opinion.

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#86
post #21

Some people put a lot more effort into their photos than I do! Although as they selected people with 100k+ followers I guess taking good photos is basically work for them (or rather their patient partners).

There's something about it that's so undignified, and cringe inducing to me. To see someone pose, repose, inspect, repose, etc. I just could never want to put that much effort into how I'm appearing. The faux spontaneity is just so off-putting.

Agreed, Instagram is the epitome of civilian posting.

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#87

Some of the photographers and subjects seem to know exactly the right angles to appear more "fit."

Yes, this is common To detect faux-lean people you can understand that the angle shot has evolved to being from a low angle to the ground And also wearing black should immediately be a flag for further scrutiny It is the first suggestion for slimming attire and it is for the optical illusion for their own confidence and having other people want to engage with them As if there is some awareness that everyone stopped s…

I've heard them called "MySpace Angles!" (See https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/myspace-angles )

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is common To detect faux-lean people you can understand that the angle shot has evolved to being from a low angle to the ground And also wearing black should immediately be a flag for further scrutiny It is the first suggestion for slimming attire and it is for the optical illusion for their own confidence and having other people want to engage with them As if there is some awareness that everyone stopped s…

I've heard them called "MySpace Angles!" (See https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/myspace-angles )

ha yes but the myspace angle shots were pre-evolution, that was from above with the face at an angle and the rest of the body not scene

now we also have low angle shots, taken by another person or at an angled mirror, producing the slimming effect

remain discerning!

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EXIF tags are scrubbed by most social media sites.

but they certainly keep the original with the tags somewhere.

Do you think the author is somehow gaining access to the originals? I do not see how this is relevant.

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#90
post #10

Not creepy at all

How is this any more creepy than any of the other people in those public locations videoing the same thing? Every day, you are recorded by hundreds of cameras, and a lot of those cameras are privately owned/operated. Specifically, I'm talking about people's smart phones. No matter where you go, just take a look around you, and you will probably be in someone else's camera frame. There is no expectation of privacy in…

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