AI can find your location in photos

Geolocating photos is easy, an none of this should come as a surprise. Anyone following the war in Ukraine will know that even photos taken inside have been successfully geolocated. Everyone should assume that photos give your location.

(The example in the article of a 35 mile miss us actually surprisingly inaccurate, given that it included a horizon of mountains.)

The other day I challenged Bard to do this, and it failed. I gave it hints and it got so confused it told me the flag of Switzerland was black, white, blue and yellow.

Don't quit your day job, Bard.

I'm not surprised because even myself with all the available resources of the 'net am able with good results find where someone is from photos. The easiest is finding out where a YouTuber is if they go outside... I never shared my results - I only did it out of curiousity - could this be done - I also located a random photo someone took out of their airplane window of the ground... It takes persistence and the same kind of logic as debugging.

> In fact, Google already has a feature known as "location estimation," which uses AI to guess a photo's location.

Is this something I can apply to my pictures? If not, that's a bummer because this feature would be very useful!

> The Stanford graduate students are well aware of the risks. They've written a paper on their technique, which they co-authored along with their professor, Chelsea Finn — but they've held back from making their full model publicly available, precisely because of these concerns, they say.

Bummer.

There are people that can do this and you can also do this in the iPhone Photos app.

Rainbolt could do it better