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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

www.404media.co

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Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

www.404media.co

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.
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    Is it just reading metadata and pretending it’s doing something impressive?

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    —We know where you are!!
    —Yeah, so do I.

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    Not gonna lie, I’d like to use this geotag a bunch of photos that I dont have location tagged to it.

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      NO CITIZEN BENEFIT! SURVEILLANCE USE ONLY!

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    Would be funny if it’s just an API call to OpenAI in the backend

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      Funnier if it just funneled all requests to the GeoGuessr dude.

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        “Do you funnel all requests to the GeoGuessr dude?”

        “No.”

        “Be a lot cooler if you did.”

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        human-as-a-service

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          Way to go rebranding ‘employment.’

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          Not too far off of how a lot of AIs function, unfortunately

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        He went to school in Flippin, Arkansa

        The US has some wild place names. Then they get bored and ruin it and just call it New [already famous place]

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    We need to poison the well. Start uploading pics with incorrect metadata. Stonehenge is now in Alaska. Rocky desert land in Madagascar.

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      I have a shortcut that strips exif data. I use it if I’m sending or posting pics.

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    Quite a lot of the commercially available AIs can already do this. I uploaded a picture I took with no metadata attached to it and it was able to correctly identify the location. Reverse image search completely failed but that’s understandable since it’s my photograph.

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