So, someone, probably a group, made the effort to build a system that can infer location from a picture. The negatives are obvious. What possible beneficial uses can it have?
Investigative journalism like the OSINT based researches conducted by bellingcat would be one example, as long as the AI results get doublechecked for accuracy.
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They could get geoguessers to participate, I guess. No need to build a publically accessible model.