AI Knows Where You Are: Exposure, Bias, and Inference in Multimodal Geolocation with KoreaGEO (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks show coarse granularity, linguistic bias, and a neglect of multimodal privacy risks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for visual-language models that analyzes social photos to assess location privacy risks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show coarse granularity, linguistic bias, and neglect of privacy risks. |
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