Security News > 2023 > December > AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
2023-12-29 12:03
To test PIGEON's performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online.
Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks.
It guessed a campsite in Yellowstone to within around 35 miles of the actual location.
The program placed another photo, taken on a street in San Francisco, to within a few city blocks.
Not every photo was an easy match: The program mistakenly linked one photo taken on the front range of Wyoming to a spot along the front range of Colorado, more than a hundred miles away.
It guessed that a picture of the Snake River Canyon in Idaho was of the Kawarau Gorge in New Zealand.