AI can find your location in photos

Geolocating photos is easy, an none of this should come as a surprise. Anyone following the war in Ukraine will know that even photos taken inside have been successfully geolocated. Everyone should assume that photos give your location.<p>(The example in the article of a 35 mile miss us actually surprisingly inaccurate, given that it included a horizon of mountains.)

The other day I challenged Bard to do this, and it failed. I gave it hints and it got so confused it told me the flag of Switzerland was black, white, blue and yellow.<p>Don&#x27;t quit your day job, Bard.

I&#x27;m not surprised because even myself with all the available resources of the &#x27;net am able with good results find where someone is from photos. The easiest is finding out where a YouTuber is if they go outside... I never shared my results - I only did it out of curiousity - could this be done - I also located a random photo someone took out of their airplane window of the ground... It takes persistence and the same kind of logic as debugging.

&gt; In fact, Google already has a feature known as &quot;location estimation,&quot; which uses AI to guess a photo&#x27;s location.<p>Is this something I can apply to my pictures? If not, that&#x27;s a bummer because this feature would be very useful!

&gt; The Stanford graduate students are well aware of the risks. They&#x27;ve written a paper on their technique, which they co-authored along with their professor, Chelsea Finn — but they&#x27;ve held back from making their full model publicly available, precisely because of these concerns, they say.<p>Bummer.

There are people that can do this and you can also do this in the iPhone Photos app.

Rainbolt could do it better