Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining(simonwillison.net)
919 points by simonw | 405 comments
Simon Willison blog post describing how OpenAI's o3 model guesses where a photo was taken, testing it on a photo from El Granada, California.















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