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This AI can locate you from a photo

 Stanford students have created a new artificial intelligence project that has the potential to become a "privacy nightmare" because it can determine the location where a photo was taken.

This AI can locate you from a photo

The project is called PIGEON (Image Geolocation Prediction) and is designed to help find the locations where Google Street View photos were taken. However, when given several photos it had never seen before, this AI model was able to find their locations with great accuracy.

Jay Stanley of the American Civil Liberties Union says this could have serious privacy implications, including government surveillance, corporate surveillance and tracking. For example, governments could use PAGEON to find dissidents or see if you've visited "forbidden" sites.

All in all, in the wrong hands, this kind of technology can wreak havoc.

Motivated by these concerns, the students said that the technology would not be available to the public, but if they could do something like this, the only question is what big companies, for example, Google, could do.

However, this technology can also have a number of positive uses if used responsibly, such as identifying areas that need road work or helping you plan a holiday. There are other positive uses, from education to biodiversity monitoring.

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