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New research has shown that by picking up on details in the picture, such as the background
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McAfee, the producer of anti-virus software, used two freely available AI models to test more than 21,000 travel images.
Key facts
- One of the models identified 91% of images accurately while the other got 87%
- McAfee, the producer of anti-virus software, used two freely available AI models to test more than 21,000 travel images
- What AI does is give context … so that makes the scam [and] makes the threats credible,” says Vonny Gamot, the head of EMEA at McAfee
- Pictures are more likely to be identified by AI if they have recognisable landmarks, skylines, signage and street markings
Summary
You are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. A few days later, you get a text saying that your card was compromised. But the text was a fraud designed to extract your financial details. New research has shown that by picking up on details in the picture, such as the background, the architecture, the signage or the light, the AI agent can pinpoint where it was taken.