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Original link https://geospy.ai/. Pretty scary stuff, I took a picture of one tree, got pinpointed to 4 km.

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Um, no. Did a test and the results are neither scary nor wowing me now:

1) Easy mode: Cityscape of Naples, Italy; Bot 100% match, nice, I guess.

2) Mid-mode: A road in Glenoak Hills, CA; Bot says Malibu, CA... Never been there.

3) Hard-mode: Main lake in Ostróda, Poland; Bot says it's in Manhattan and that the vegetation matches Northern American :-D Ahahaha, didn't even get the continent right so...

Note: Tested on personal photos, with EXIF stripped, not widely/at all uploaded to the nets.

So... perhaps works great if you feed it back stock photos you've grabbed from the first result of a google search? Because my mileage is barely an inch.

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.

It can do wonders for OSINT and disproving propaganda (for what's that worth).

Feels like there could be anti fake news applications. It's pretty common for photos to be recycled and purported to be of current events, when what they actually show is far away both in distance and time

location scouting for filmmakers

Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.

Just hire people from the geoguessr leaderboards, they are much better than this AI model. And every country employing like one or two such people and making them available to their police agencies is probably more than they could ever need.

You might think making an AI model will be cheaper, but if you commoditize it like this the additional police work from stalkers will outweigh any savings by multiple orders of magnitude

Took a picture and it recognized the architecture style, guessed the wrong town 60km away.

Same here: Picture from rural Austria in the North and it comes up with Hungaria. Location is in the center of Budapest, 300km distance to the original view point. But architectual style looks really hungarian.

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