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Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos (www.npr.org)

submitted 10 months ago by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications.

"But it also could be used to expose information about individuals that they never intended to share, says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union who studies technology. Stanley worries that similar technology, which he feels will almost certainly become widely available, could be used for government surveillance, corporate tracking or even stalking."

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and people like me having continued to point out that this problem stems from a bad view of expectation of privacy.

A non-famous person has a reasonable expectation of privacy on public property. If you take a photo and a non-famous person's face is in it, you should have written consent for only that photo or blur it out. If Disney can own an image of a mouse for 95 fucking years I can own my own image.

Don't take pictures of people or their property without consent. Just because technology allows you to be a disgusting creep doesn't mean you should. If you want jerk off material just use the internet like the rest of us.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you want jerk off material just use the internet like the rest of us.

The kind of thing this can be used for is about ten stages past jerking off, and in to stalker territory. So a person already using the internet for jerking off can now pinpoint exactly where the person they're jerking off to lives, and potentially turn up at their house, and escalate from there. This is beyond just creepy (and exploitative, in the case of corporations using the info), it's potentially putting lives at risk.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok I don't know what I am supposed to do about that. Let's just work on the problem we can solve for now.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

I never asked you to do anything? just pointing out things are much more serious than your comment makes out. I also don't see how what you said is a problem we can solve now and it's ok to focus on, but what I added somehow isn't..