**[How Terrifying is the AI Purchased by U.S. Police? A Photo of a Washing Machine Can Trace a House]** Beating AI News: The U.S.-based AI company Graylark has added an indoor location feature to its Raven tool, enabling it to identify a house with just a single photo of a room. In a demonstration, a photo of a washing machine and dryer taken from X was matched within seconds to an Airbnb rental in Charlotte, U.S. When replaced with a bathroom photo, it identified a Vrbo listing in California. A fact-check by 404 Media confirmed that the returned property names indeed corresponded to real rental listings. In another demonstration, Raven used property photos from Zillow to pinpoint the exact address of a house in San Francisco based on an indoor photo. Previously known as GeoSpy, Raven primarily identified photo locations using outdoor features like buildings and vegetation. Now, it can search for specific properties. It does not require GPS metadata in photos or rely on finding identical images. Instead, the system compares details such as room layouts, beams, and tiles to photos of rental properties on platforms like Airbnb, Vrbo, and Zillow, linking them to location information. Graylark claims its short-term rental search covers millions of properties worldwide, while address searches for private residences are limited to certain cities. This means that even if rental platforms hide specific addresses, indoor photos could still reveal the property’s location. Airbnb stated that it removes location data from photos and only provides full addresses to confirmed guests. The company also clarified that it has never collaborated with Graylark and prohibits data scraping under its platform rules. In February, 404 Media reported that internal police emails confirmed the Los Angeles Police Department and the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office had both purchased this tool. Graylark hopes to use it for cases like human trafficking, though its actual effectiveness remains less certain than promotional videos suggest. Miami-Dade police previously stated that their trial use of the tool was still in an exploratory phase and had not yet led to significant breakthroughs or arrests. [Original Link]