I’m going through some family photos dating back years. Can anyone identify this beach and this town in the UK ?
First one looks like Saltburn-by-the-Sea looking towards Huntcliffe, the second one is Boston, Lincolnshire.
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Thanks Griffin ! I thought the beach would be somewhere in Yorkshire but I didn’t recognise the cliff. And the second… I guess the photo is possibly taken from the top of Boston Stump.
Hmm, Southport. I remember going there for the day and having to avoid all the jellyfish washed up on the beach and the roads nearby.
Or Great Yarmouth or this part of Scotland !
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Yes Peter, it’s a disgrace. By chance, I happen to have just watched the videos from The Ocean Cleanup project. They’re currently working on removing plastic in the largest of the ocean garbage patches, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The amount they are getting out is shocking.
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I just uploaded your 2 photos to ChatGPT asking it to identify the beach and town.
Answer…
The first photo (beach scene) is of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire.
It got the town view wrong, but when pressed about architectural style, Boston it is, and identified the statue as that of - Sir Herbert Ingram, founder of The Illustrated London News and local MP.
I found an old photo of me as a toddler but I didn’t know when it was taken. I asked ChatGPT what age the toddler might be and guessed me to be 2 or 3 years old, born 1941/1942. I was born at the end of 1941. ID based on being carried but big enough to walk, body proportions, expression showing awareness and curiosity typical of a 2–3-year-old, size relative to adult.
ChatGPT has its uses!
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Yes but think of all the personal data you’re feeding it with!
I do use AI software in photo retouching and it’s very clever, but I do worry that the servant may well become the master before too long.
Also the bastards that write AI software are thieves - over 2000 of my images have been used to train AI image software such as MidJourney, without any authorisation from me or any offer of payment from them.
What personal data do you mean? I only uploaded the photos and asked for identification of place and the age of a toddler.
Not while I’m in charge of my computer…
Those are data. Facial recognition software is alive and well.
Once your info is on the internet it’s outside of your charge. Your posts on here can easily be cross-referenced with the websites you visit, your online searches, etc etc.
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Google scans your photos, not sure they can use them if you watermark them with the copyright C,
It’s not Google that’s the problem it’s everybody else.
Most people (and even businesses that should know better) assume that if a photo is online it’s free to use.
Even some “professional “ photographers don’t understand copyright law. There is an entire website devoted to outing photographers who have “borrowed” other colleagues photographs to promote their businesses.
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A friend of mine in UK has an extremely handsome brother that I was quite surprised to see used for an ad in China for a 24 hour made to measure suit tailor. They’d simply cadged it from a magazine completely unbeknownst to him.
I sent my friend a photo copy and gave his beautiful brother a good laugh.
Interesting. Thanks for the update !
A client of my video production company was a very prominent UK company with a very high profile. Their new head of comms first requested, then insisted that we use tracks by well-known artists (Beatles, Michael Jackson, Queen, Stones etc etc) as background or title music for some of their internal videos.
We negotiated the relevant clearance fees through the correct channels and the client was horrified at the (admittedly high) costs - sometimes several times as great as the actual cost of the video. They decided that they were not willing to pay the fees so we said that we couldn’t use the music.
We didn’t work for them again.
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Another example - the “optional” AI feature in WhatsApp that you can’t turn off. And I would bet a fair sum that it’s listening to your conversations “in order to be ready to help you”…
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