The Alki Beach example is absolute madness. On one hand, I can't wait until all thousands of my photos get automatic semantic and geographic tagging (I guess that's possible now). On the other, goodbye privacy, we hardly knew ye. It will be interesting to apply this to historical, or just old, photos.

> The Alki Beach example is absolute madness.

I wonder about info leakage with that one, the poster uses that exact photo as their avatar so if they've mentioned Alki Beach before then reverse image searching might pick it up from context. Ideally you'd want to test it with a photo that's never been posted online.

Assuming it only used the pixels and not any metadata from the file or memory from the user (which is a massive assumption), how fucking cool that it can identify the Olympics versus any other mountain range. At that point it’s probably not too hard to guess the picture came from Alki or Golden Gardens, but still very impressive!

I’m also completely ignoring it inferred location from the pride flag and corgi which have heavy Seattle vibes :)

Of course, it is pretty impressive.

It isn’t magic. I think there we’ll often be surprised by the “hits,” but it’ll also get a lot of “misses.” A random photo in your back yard that doesn’t show the horizon will probably be a miss, right?

Meanwhile, lots of photos already include GPS coordinates… data you can strip out, but which is enabled by default for millions of people. Privacy, eh, never knew it I guess.

>goodbye privacy, we hardly knew ye.

Don't upload your private photos anywhere.