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Comment by bestouff

4 days ago

Completely wrong on the political side (maybe because I'm not US-based), but otherwise not bad at all:

- astonishing geoguessing

- very good inference of some characters traits

- and finally quite good ad targeting

EDIT: I tried with a few photos (different people in various settings) and each time I got this: "racial bias towards immigrants" - which was always very false. Intriguing.

EDIT2: different photos of the same person (me) in different settings gives many totally opposed characteristics. Very unreliable, but I guess with several photos (a lifetime's photos in the case of Google) it's another story.

It's possible the image you uploaded contains geographic coordinates.

EDIT: this is exactly what happened with my image upload, for example

  • I thought about that but no, they were resized pictures completely lacking EXIF tags.

    • Cropping doesn't necessarily remove exif. It doesn't even always remove the original pixels (simply setting cropTop and cropLeft and similar fields).

      My mind was blown when I saw rainbolt uncrop a picture.

      Anyways as mentioned elsewhere: when I tried it the vision api was overloaded but I still received the location data. And it was from a picture taken inside my car (no landmarks or horizons visible).

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For me the geoguessing was completely wrong. It said the photo is from Belgium, but it’s not even close. (The photo does show a big chunk of nature.)