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The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos
There's a somewhat concerning new trend going viral on social media: people are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in a photo.
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. Given a picture of a purple, mounted rhino head in a dimly-lit bar, o3 correctly answered that it was from a Williamsburg speakeasy — not, as GPT-4o guessed, a U.K. pub. Several of our tests failed — o3 got stuck in a loop, unable to arrive at an answer it was reasonably confident about, or volunteered a wrong location.
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