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simonw 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, d...

It absolutely does that - o3 knows your current location based on IP address etc. This means for a fair test you need to use a photo taken nowhere near your current vicinity - that's why I added examples for Madagascar and Buenos Aires at the end of my post: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/#up...

wkat4242 14 days ago | [–]

And of course make sure you turn off geotagging in the exif :)

But really, if Google Street View data (or similar) is entirely part of the training dataset it is more than expected that it has this capability.

mimischi 14 days ago | [–]

Thanks! Looks like I missed that last part somehow :)

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