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Re:Find a location using only a shadow in a photo or video f... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:50PM (#40593266)
https://geospy.ai/ is disturbingly accurate. They sell an API that even returns a street address.

GPT-4o is also terrifyingly good if prompted to think investigatively. I've uploaded a photo of a friend's generic backyard with no text, signs, people, sky, or anything obvious, and it nailed their specific neighborhood. I've even sent it nothing more than a photo of my bathroom (with product labels blacked out) and it still identified sufficient clues to guess a locality within 200 miles of my actual location.

A regular Sherlock Holmes with superhuman levels of world knowledge.

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Re:Find a location using only a shadow in a photo or video f... by spotplay on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:13AM (#40594072)
Did you remove the metadata before sending it? The bathroom story is far too impressive if you did, and could help identify kidnapping victims' locations
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Re:Find a location using only a shadow in a photo or video f... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:13AM (#40597004)
Yes. I even resized and reencoded after running the images through an EXIF stripper and verifying there was only pixel data left.

Ubiquitous world knowledge is a powerful police tool.

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Re:Find a location using only a shadow in a photo or video f... by lnrd on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:25AM (#40597796)
Did you ask what clues it used to determine the location? Would be interesting to know
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Re:Find a location using only a shadow in a photo or video f... by saaaaaam on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:54PM (#40601642)
Just ran a few things through geospy. Including one of the inside of a plant room with some very generic aircon units. It got the right city based on the brick work.
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Re:Find a location using only a shadow in a photo or video f... by MIC132 on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:18AM (#40605796)
Interestingly, my experience with it has been the opposite. While it's quite good at understanding what's in the picture it only has gotten my country right a few times and even then it just gives the capital, which I'm quite far away from.
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