ChatGPT gets scarily good at guessing photo locations, sparking doxxing concerns

A hot potato: Now that people have mostly stopped using ChatGPT to turn themselves into action figures, it seems the next trend involving the AI is using it to guess locations based on photos. While some are finding this reverse location search functionality fun, it raises several privacy concerns, especially when it comes to doxxing. OpenAI released its latest o3 and o4-mini models last week, which can "reason" through uploaded images. This means it can crop, rotate, and zoom in on photos, even if they're of poor quality. Combined with the models' other abilities, people have found that they are particularly good at identifying locations in uploaded photos. Users are feeding o3 images of everything from restaurant menus to selfies and telling the model to imagine it is playing the online guessing game GeoGuessr, which tasks players with guessing locations based on Google Street View images. Wow, nailed it and not even a tree in sight. pic.twitter.com/bVcoe1fQ0Z – swax (@swax) Apri ... Read full article.