Recently, Kelsey Piper shared that o3 (at time of writing, one of the latest reasoning models from OpenAI) could guess where outdoor images were taken with almost perfect accuracy. Scott Alexander and others have since verified this claim. I’ve been playing around with this too: with the prompt linked in Scott’s post, o3 can guess where my photos were taken almost every time, even when I intentionally avoid anything that looks like it might be too helpful. After inspecting the reasoning, ...
