Think GeoGuessr is fun? Try using ChatGPT to guess locations in your photos

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET People have found a new use for ChatGPT: Figuring out locations from photos. OpenAI's latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, can analyze images beyond just recognizing objects; they can zoom in, crop, and detect visual clues in photos to help identify places, landmarks, and even specific businesses. This capability is fascinating, but it's also raised some privacy concerns about how easily people can use AI to reverse-engineer location data from images. Also: ChatGPT just made it easy to find and edit all the AI images you've ever generated TechCrunch reported that people are uploading photos -- anything from restaurant menu snapshots to casual selfies -- and asking ChatGPT to guess where they were taken. The AI does this by looking at everything in the image: the type of buildings, landscape features, and even subtle hints like the architecture or the layout of a city. It then taps into its knowledge database and sometimes the internet to make an educated g ... Read full article.