Did you know ChatGPT Is Now a Potent Location Finding Tool Thanks to Its Unique Reasoning Through Uploaded Images

 

While most people would turn to other means to search for locations, you’ll be amazed at the new trend going viral that uses ChatGPT models for this purpose.

Yes, people are making use of the ChatGPT's latest model to find locations seen in images. The company’s latest models, o3 and o4-mini, were shared, which carry great reasoning capabilities through uploaded pictures. This entails both blurry as well as disoriented ones that can be analyzed easily.

The great ability, paired with the model’s quick search features, means they can find locations for users with ease. In particular, some users called out o3 for doing a great job at finding landmarks and cities, and also eateries from subtle image clues.

So many cases are out there where the models don’t seem to be linked to memories past the usual ChatGPT conversations or the EXIF data. The latter is linked to images that share details like where the image was taken.

You’ll find so many examples of people feeding models with menus, artworks, and many more, asking them to locate what they’re in search of. It’s something like what they do with Google Street View. Now this does come with some serious privacy issues as threat actors can screenshot anything they want, like personal stories, and feed them into the system to find them.

Experts claim that the latest ChatGPT models are doing a great job at the guessing game. They arrived at the solution in seconds and produced the right reply in no time. The models aren’t flawless just yet, but do a great job of getting near to what people are in search of.

The latest trend displays some of the huge risks presented by more capable individuals having reasoning AI models. There seems to be some safeguards in place that stop this kind of reverse location lookup across the models and the company behind the makers of ChatGPT. However, we must mention that they are yet to address safety issues like these in the new o3 and o4-mini safety report.