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Word to the wise, be careful about the images you post on social media. OpenAI's latest AI models, released last week, have sparked a new viral craze for bot-powered geoguessing. In other words, using AI to deduce where a photo was taken. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that could be a doxxing and privacy nightmare.
OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are both capable of image "reasoning". In broad terms, that means comprehensive image analysis skills. The models can crop and manipulate images, zoom in, read text, the works. Add to that agentic web search abilities, and you theoretically have a killer image-location tool, foreboding pun somewhat intended.
According to OpenAI itself, "for the first time, these models can integrate images directly into their chain of thought. They don’t just see an image—they think with it. This unlocks a new class of problem-solving that blends visual and textual reasoning."
That's exactly what early users of the o3 model in particular have found (via TechCrunch). Numerous posts are popping up across social media showing users challenging the new ChatGPT models to play GeoGuessr with uploaded images.
A close-cropped snap of a few books on a shelf? The library in question at the University of Melbourne correctly identified. Yikes. Another X post shows the model spotting cars with steering wheels on the left but also driving on the left-hand side of the road, narrowing down the options to a few countries where driving on the left is required but lefthand drive cars are common, including the eventual correct guess of Suriname in South America.
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OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are both capable of image "reasoning". In broad terms, that means comprehensive image analysis skills. The models can crop and manipulate images, zoom in, read text, the works. Add to that agentic web search abilities, and you theoretically have a killer image-location tool, foreboding pun somewhat intended.
According to OpenAI itself, "for the first time, these models can integrate images directly into their chain of thought. They don’t just see an image—they think with it. This unlocks a new class of problem-solving that blends visual and textual reasoning."
That's exactly what early users of the o3 model in particular have found (via TechCrunch). Numerous posts are popping up across social media showing users challenging the new ChatGPT models to play GeoGuessr with uploaded images.
A close-cropped snap of a few books on a shelf? The library in question at the University of Melbourne correctly identified. Yikes. Another X post shows the model spotting cars with steering wheels on the left but also driving on the left-hand side of the road, narrowing down the options to a few countries where driving on the left is required but lefthand drive cars are common, including the eventual correct guess of Suriname in South America.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/theres-no-need-to-overshare-on-social-media-now-that-openais-new-chatbots-can-pinpoint-your-location-from-the-tiniest-details-in-images/There's no need to overshare on social media now that OpenAI's new chatbots can pinpoint your location from the tiniest details in images
The ultimate GeoGuessr cheat code or just a privacy nightmare?
