GPS Cords In Photos
- Thread starter Teegate
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Time is coming when that won't even matter. Just for fun, I tried this site with one of @M1 Abrams photos from today. Guess you have to subscribe to see the full info, but from what it shows, the guesses aren't too bad. And we're just at the dawn of this kind of thing. With the whole internet to train these AI models (including every photo we've all posted here), just imagine what they can do in ten years. 
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I like having the location accessable. Many times I'll take a plant photo and I can't figure out where I was exactly.
I only mentioned it so that someone who does post, and doesn't know, would now know. The feature is there to turn on and off if needed. I can strip it in my paint program but the newest version I have is not as easy as the check box that was on previous versions.
With the whole internet to train these AI models (including every photo we've all posted here), just imagine what they can do in ten years.
Speaking of this point, this is something I have wondered about a bit. I'm not sure about how Ben feels on the subject of entities scraping this site for AI training data, but if it is not something that he particularly wants, it might be nice to at least add some of the major crawlers' user agents to the site's robots.txt. Personally I would prefer if the images and text I post here are not used to train generative AI models, even though I realize that it is not something I can effectively prevent.
Unscrupulous crawlers can of course choose to just ignore the robots.txt directive, and there are other techniques that can be applied besides this, but it would at least be something.
That's the problem. I think the horse got out of the barn awhile ago and there's no putting him back inside.
