@simon_brooke Scary, indeed. Imagine, a fascist system using #Google.
BTW, they don't need GPS data from a camera. The have the largest photo data base with street/landscape photos, trained #AI #machineLearning to identify structures and compare #photos. If trees or walls are still there, it's easy. They used users for trainings like "click all parts with a bus". And they have your faces for #faceRecognition in the future ...
OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct.
Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war Exakta camera did not have GPS. Could you identify, from that picture, exactly where it was taken?
Google can.
@simon_brooke Scary, indeed. Imagine, a fascist system using #Google.
BTW, they don't need GPS data from a camera. The have the largest photo data base with street/landscape photos, trained #AI #machineLearning to identify structures and compare #photos. If trees or walls are still there, it's easy. They used users for trainings like "click all parts with a bus". And they have your faces for #faceRecognition in the future ...