OpenAI's o3 Model: A Surreal, Dystopian, and Wildly Entertaining Location Guesser

OpenAI's new o3 model demonstrates an uncanny ability to pinpoint the location of a photograph. The author tested it with an seemingly innocuous picture from a bar in El Granada, California. o3, using image analysis (house styles, vegetation, license plates etc.) and Python code for image processing, correctly guessed the Central Coast region of California. While slightly off on the precise location, its second guess hit the mark. This showcases AI's incredible reasoning capabilities but also raises privacy and security concerns, given its potential for misuse in tracking individuals.