Artificial intelligence can accurately geolocate photos, raising concerns about privacy.
A student project called PIGEON developed by Stanford graduate students demonstrated the ability of AI to identify locations in personal photos.
While this technology has potential beneficial applications, such as helping people identify old snapshots or conducting surveys, it also raises concerns about government surveillance, corporate tracking, and stalking.
The project used an existing system called CLIP and trained it with images from Google Street View.
PIGEON can guess the correct country 95% of the time and locate a place within about 25 miles of the actual site.
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