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ChatGPT models are surprisingly good at Geoguessing

a year ago
  • #AI
  • #Privacy
  • #GeoGuessr
  • OpenAI's new AI models, o3 and o4-mini, can analyze images to deduce locations.
  • Users are leveraging o3's image-reasoning and web search capabilities to play 'GeoGuessr'-style location guessing games.
  • The models can identify cities, landmarks, restaurants, and bars from subtle visual clues without relying on EXIF data.
  • This raises privacy concerns, as bad actors could use the tool to doxx individuals from social media photos.
  • Testing showed o3 sometimes outperforms GPT-4o in location guessing but can also be inaccurate or get stuck in loops.
  • OpenAI has not addressed potential safeguards against reverse location lookups in its safety report for the new models.