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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by hhh on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:19PM (#46518067)
Last time I looked at this company they just dumped your uploads into an unauthenticated gcp bucket. They just ran your photo thru an llm and asked for its location at the time, and the founder was doing something very weird (in my opinion) with scraping Tinder profiles.

https://x.com/i/status/1786030866214326651

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by Sophira on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:34PM (#46519783)
Back when GeoSpy was available for everyone to use, I did a test where I just uploaded an image that had a black background and white text saying the location of a place and a textual description.

GeoSpy told me that it was the place mentioned in the picture, with the textual description as evidence.

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by hhh on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:58AM (#46523399)
Yes, I have done the same and also used it to prompt inject to give some info about the prompt, but I don’t have that data anymore.
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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by Aherontas on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:08AM (#46540133)
A same to not have them anymore :P
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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by leobg on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:22PM (#46519677)
What were the jpgs in tge thotDBSmash folder? Did the founder use that bucket to collect photos of women? Or was that geolocation material, too…
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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by cameronh90 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:29PM (#46519736)
> Or was that geolocation material, too…

Yeah I think we've figured out what inspired him to build the tool. :/

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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by tonyhart7 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:43PM (#46520538)
if creep and tech nerd was a person:
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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by hhh on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:56AM (#46523388)
You upload photos to tinder, and tinder has rough data on location provided (distance to you) i believe, the photos were the photos people posted on their tinder profile.
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Re:Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy by bbor on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:20AM (#46523536)
Wow — that is probably the most suspicious set of three details ever shared on this forum. Thank you for enlightening us!
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