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Title: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/19412...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: There's a somewhat
concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the
location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models,
o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely "reason" through uploaded images.
In practice, the models can crop, rotate, and zoom in on photos -- even
blurry and distorted ones -- to thoroughly analyze them. These image-
analyzing capabilities, paired with the models' ability to search the web,
make for a potent location-finding tool. Users on X quickly discovered that
o3, in particular, is quite good at deducing cities, landmarks, and even
restaurants and bars from subtle visual clues. In many cases, the models
don't appear to be drawing on "memories" of past ChatGPT conversations, or
EXIF data, which is the metadata attached to photos that reveal details such
as where the photo was taken. X is filled with examples of users giving
ChatGPT restaurant menus, neighborhood snaps, facades, and self-portraits,
and instructing o3 to imagine it's playing "GeoGuessr," an online game that
challenges players to guess locations from Google Street View images. It's an
obvious potential privacy issue. There's nothing preventing a bad actor from
screenshotting, say, a person's Instagram Story and using ChatGPT to try to
doxx them.

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