• @UnbrokenTaco@lemm.ee
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      This isn’t stupid. To me, this is yet another potential tool to erode privacy.

      Even if it’s right only half of the time, that might be enough to reasonably guess your location based on your image uploads, particularly if you have uploaded more than one image, or a video.

    • Ulrich
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      That won’t do anything here. It’s identifying location based on indicators in the image itself.

  • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    1223 days ago

    Doxxing made easy. Oh isn‘t the internet a wonderful place? I mean who needs 4Chan when we have ChatGPT, Facebook and Xitter…

  • VodkaSolution
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    224 days ago

    The vast majority of the pics posted online are tagged with localization

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      I haven’t been looking recently, but I assume that most image hosting services have been stripping EXIF metadata, or at least some of it, for years. Imgur strips it; it was used for image hosting for Reddit for a long time.

      On lemmy, pict-rs strips EXIF metadata. It’s a real annoyance on !imageai@sh.itjust.works, because the AI image generators I’ve seen attach metadata to indicate that:

      • The image was generated via AI

      • Prompt keywords used to generate the image, if using something like Automatic1111.

      • In the case of ComfyUI, the entire workflow, so that someone can go produce the entire workflow that led to the image.

      I’d kind of prefer that there be some software that try to identify personally-identifiable data and have pict-rs run that and only remove that. Or, alternately, let the user opt in to not stripping EXIF metadata.

  • Justas🇱🇹
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    -823 days ago

    If the lake I keep posting is full of leftist trans women next time I go there, I now will know why.