Hosts discuss the risk of identifying a location from long-form audio

A host suggested that someone’s location could be identified from a long outdoor audio recording: distinctive Doppler curves from passing aircraft could be analyzed, matched to a location, and used to triangulate where the person is. He had heard that this might require about 15 minutes of clean audio, but questioned how clean the recording would need to be, particularly when sound is transmitted through a video call with noise cancellation.

Another host said analogous geolocation from photos has long been possible: GeoGuessr creator Rainbolt, he said, has identified places using images and Google Maps. The first host concluded that long, unedited vlogs recorded outside someone’s home could reveal their location, calling the scenario an example of AI-enabled surveillance. The participants did not establish that the method had been tested on the recording under discussion.