Comment by mk89
2 days ago
This tool just makes it easier for weirdos to achieve their goals at stalking women and kids.
Crazy that this is even allowed.
Who the hell needs to know the precise location of a picture, besides law enforcement? A rough location is most of the time sufficient. Like a region, a state, or a landscape (e.g., when you see the Bing background pictures, it's nice to see where they were taken).
This tool will give a boost to all those creeps out there that can have access to one or two pictures.
I can't believe such a comment is posted now in 2025. Everyone had moved on from that kind of thing at least a decade ago. Or are there some parts of the Internet where this would be new?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. That stalking is a thing of the past? Or maybe that everyone expects to be stalked in 2025? Could you be trying to say that with a convicted rapist president, that stalking is encouraged in some countries? Your comment is vague at best.
This is pure luddism. A human could have done the exact same thing. I’ll also point out that in this case the most confident guess was 200 miles off and the second correct guess was only down to the city level. Not remotely what anyone would consider precise.
The fact that it got it wrong was one of the reasons I picked that example: it's much more interesting that way.
If you feed it a photo with a clear landmark it will get the location exactly right.
If you feed it a photo that's a close up of a brick wall it won't have a chance.
What's interesting is how well it can do on this range of tasks. If you don't think that's at least interesting I'm not sure what I can do for you.
A skilled human can do the same thing but not everyone is open to offering this sort of services for certain purposes.
Making a tool like this trained on existing map services, for example Google Street images, gives everyone, no matter who, the potential to find someone in no time.
These tools are growing like crazy, how long will it take before someone will "democratize" the "location services market"...
> but not everyone is open to offering this sort of services for certain purposes.
Sorry but I call bull on this. Put it on one of the chans with a sob story and it gets "solved" in seconds. Or reddit w/ something bait like "my capitalist boss threatened to let my puppy starve because he wants profits, AITA if I glitter bomb his office?"...
for now. These things have a way of very quickly going from somewhat-ok to superhuman in months
Will someone please think of the women and children?
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