AI o3 model debuts with uncanny photo location skills

April 26, 2025, 9:20 am

Two stories detail a fascinating demonstration where the AI model o3 analyzes and accurately guesses a photo’s location. The experiment combines technical wizardry with a hint of dystopian amusement as observers marvel at technology that feels straight out of a sci-fi plot.

simonwillison.net / Quoting Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat

We've been seeing if the latest versions of LLMs are any better at geolocating and chronolocating images, and they've improved dramatically since we last tested them in 2023. [...] Before anyone worries about it taking our job, I see it more as the difference between a hand whisk and an electric...

simonwillison.net / The GeoGuessr StreetView meta-game

My post on o3 guessing locations from photos made it to Hacker News and by far the most interesting comments are from SamPatt, a self-described competitive GeoGuessr player. In a thread about meta-knowledge of the StreetView card uses in different regions: The photography matters a great deal -...

bgr.com / I used fake ChatGPT images to fool o3’s amazing photo location capability, and the AI still blew my mind

OpenAI released two powerful reasoning models a few days ago that make ChatGPT even more impressive. These are o3 and o4-mini that you can test … The post I used fake ChatGPT images to fool o3’s amazing photo location capability, and the AI still blew my mind appeared first on BGR.

simonwillison.net / Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

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simonwillison.net / Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining

Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It's a cross between the Enhance Button and Omniscient Database TV Tropes. The process is simple. Snap a photograph of somewhere, ideally without putting any...

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