# The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

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## What Jamie wrote

My son likes to play [GeoGuessr](https://www.geoguessr.com) which drops you in a random place on Google Street View and you get 2 minutes to guess where you are. It is pretty fun and surprising how close you can get with the search engine right there as well. This AI tool is like that but just using a photo. Even photos without GPS data. This is just looking at the content of the photo and determining from that where the photo was taken.

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