Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy

Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by momojo on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:02PM (#46517829)

Reminds me of the Clearview AI controversy[0].

I'm not diminishing the ethics debate, but it's crazy to me how easy it was for two non-technical rich dudes in a garage to build Clearview AI (And before vibe-coding!):

  1. scrape billions of faces from the internet
  2. `git clone` any off the shelf facial-recognition repo

It was just a matter of when.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI#History

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by ngcc_hk on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:24AM (#46523556)

Concerned but given the use can it be stopped ?

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by motbus3 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:53AM (#46525879)

Yes. If one knows that someone has their identifiable data without consent it is a problem.

While they are pictures on the internet it is one thing, when you gather them all and put a label with a number then it is problematic.

Remember that FaceApp to make you older, younger etc? Imagine how much data those guys collected?

I know someone who submitted the face of a member of my family without consent. You could not even complain without agreeing with the TOS first

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by Aherontas on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:10AM (#46540148)

Unfortunately we will see this kind of cases more and more with AI rise. I don't believe it is the only app that could do relevant labeled searching in faces etc.

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by DrScientist on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:16AM (#46527334)

Am I the only one that finds it amusing that conpanies like Google and Facebook sent Clearview legal letters complaining about scraping data from their sites?

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