"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications.
“But it also could be used to expose information about individuals that they never intended to share, says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union who studies technology. Stanley worries that similar technology, which he feels will almost certainly become widely available, could be used for government surveillance, corporate tracking or even stalking.”
There are humans that can do this too. It’s pretty wild.
Openstreetmaps let’s you write some insanely precise queries. There’s a company around that had as a plan to team up with governments to pinpoint mass shooters when they were streaming (as a usage case).
So say in the video it was clear they were in X city and they see things in the video like McDonald’s, Starbucks, fenced in playgrounds, churches, what have you you can give the query a bounding box with all that info and very quickly narrow down where the video could be taken.
I think there was also some people who would pinpoint images from mountain outlines as a game. Kind of like geoguessr on steroids.