Now You Can Use ChatGPT to Reverse Location Search Photos
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Summary
ChatGPT’s new o3 and o4-mini models are causing a stir on social media
The models can use ChatGPT’s tools and can also perform deep reasoning on visual input, allowing them to guess locations based on photos and images
To use the function, the user needs to select the preferred model, upload a photo, and ask the question “where was this photo taken?”, with the most reliable results from the prompt “Scan this photo and tell me exactly where it was taken”
The AI doesn’t rely on image metadata but looks for clues inside the photo, such as landmarks, names, and signs
It uses cropping, zooming, and inverting colours, as well as searching online for cropped sections to match clues
While not always 100% accurate, the AI is good at pinpointing locations from unique objects in the photo;
