Re:Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search
by swyx on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:09AM
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why exactly did they handicap it? i've noticed it's also weirdly desktop only, i have to add ?imghp to get it to display the reverse image search button on ipad
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Re:Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search
by vintermann on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:10AM
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Well, yandex search was better for a while. Then Bellingcat managed to identify some spy with it. Then yandex got worse too.
I think maybe that's part of the picture.
Edit: I looked up the details again. It was an FSB officer named Andrei Burlaka, involved in the shooting down of MH17. Someone in Russia were selling their TV set online, and had taken a picture of the TV for the ad. It just so happened that Burlaka was on TV exactly that moment. Yandex images indexed the ad, leading the investigators to identify him.
Re:Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search
by AdvancedCarrot on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:59AM
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My suspicion is that they did it for privacy reasons.
Let me give you an example - you have a photo of someone. Should Google give you their facebook profile in the results if you search for the picture? Their AI is certainly capable of this, but some people would be understandably creeped out by it.