isn't anyone else horrified by this? the implication is that given an arbitrary picture, chatgpt can give you a very likely approximate location - expert level doxxing is in the hands of anyone with access to a chatgpt subscription.
because women are commonly stalked by men, if it must be said. if any idiot can plug any picture into chatgpt and ask "where was this picture taken?" while being able to successively narrow the scope, the potential for stalking - especially of the parasocial kind - goes up.
Keep in mind that this is o3 + web search against a human without web search. A sufficiently motivated person with access to your entire social media history, Google Earth and Streetview, etc. would outperform this significantly and could pinpoint almost any inhabited location with coverage.
If you watch Linus Tech Tips, you may have noticed that when he films at his house everything is blurred out to keep people from locating it - here's a recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD_RYb7m4Pw
All that to say, unfortunately doxxing is already really hard to protect against. I don't think o3's capability makes the threat any harder to protect against, although it might lower the bar to entry somewhat.
the way i see it, before these tools, only someone with a lot of resources (or skills) could track down a location from a picture. now, anyone can do it.
the best case outcome is people become more aware of the privacy implications of posting photos online
It needs a lot of context. If its a private picture, it won't have enough information. I gave it a picture I took of my yard and it's guess spanned several US states.
I think this is incredibly cool. As with many things, the good cases will outnumber the bad.
This was always possible, it just wasn't widely distributed.
Having a first class ability to effectively geocode an image feels like it connects the world better. You'll be able to snapshot a movie and find where a scene was filmed, revisit places from old photographs, find where interesting locations in print media are, places that designers and creatives used in their (typically exif-stripped) work, etc.
Imagine when we get this for architecture and nature. Or even more broadly, databases of food from restaurants. Products. Clothing and fashion. You name it.
Imagine precision visual search for everything - that'd be amazing.
feels terrifying, especially for women.