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.
Wow, nailed it and not even a tree in sight. pic.twitter.com/bVcoe1fQ0Z
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