ChatGPT Now Playing Detective: Reverse Location Search Turns Everyone Into Sherlock Holmes

In a world where privacy is as dead as the dial-up internet, ChatGPT has decided to spice things up by turning every user into a wannabe Sherlock Holmes. The latest viral trend? Using AI to perform reverse location searches from photos. Because who needs Google Maps when you have an AI that can probably also tell you the best coffee shop near that suspiciously blurry photo of your ex?

OpenAI, in its infinite wisdom, has rolled out the o3 and o4-mini models, which apparently can reason through images. Yes, you heard that right. The AI can now crop, rotate, and zoom in on your photos like a nosy neighbor with a high-powered telescope. The only thing missing is the AI muttering, I knew it was them! Even after all these years! under its digital breath.

Here’s how it works: You upload a photo, and ChatGPT, with the enthusiasm of a dog who’s just found your homework, will try to figure out where it was taken. It’s like playing geoguessr, but instead of bragging rights, you get the existential dread of realizing how much the internet knows about you.

• Step 1: Upload a photo of a place you’ve never been to but pretend you have for Instagram clout.
• Step 2: Watch as ChatGPT dissects it like a frog in a high school biology class.
• Step 3: Profit? Or at least, use the information to one-up your friends in the most annoying way possible.

But let’s be real, the only thing this feature is missing is an option to automatically send a postcard from the location it identifies. Because nothing says I’m not a stalker like a handwritten note from a place you’ve never actually visited.

Privacy advocates are, unsurprisingly, losing their minds. But let’s face it, in the era of smart fridges that judge your eating habits, this is just another drop in the ocean of creepy tech. The only solution? Start taking all your photos in a green screen room. Good luck reverse-location-searching that, ChatGPT.