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Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

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Re: Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

#4

6 minutes and 48 seconds? Some YouTuber can find the location in 0.1 second. I don't know if those videos are fake.

If you are a professional geoguessr player, you play so many games that it’s not unrealistic to get very good guesses once in a while.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if some form of cheating is happening.

Re: Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

#5

6 minutes and 48 seconds? Some YouTuber can find the location in 0.1 second. I don't know if those videos are fake.

Some people are really good at GeoGuessr, but also their best performance are more likely to get views.

If you want a bot that is extremely strong at geoguessr there is this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05845

One forward pass is probably faster than 0.1 second. You can see its performance here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ts5lPDV--cU (rainbolt is a really strong player)

Re: Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

#7
> I’m confident it didn’t cheat and look at the EXIF data on the photograph, because if it had cheated it wouldn’t have guessed Cambria first.

If I was cheating on a similar task, I might make it more plausible by suggesting a slightly incorrect location as my primary guess.

Would be interesting to see if it performs as well on the same image with all EXIF data removed. It would be most interesting if it fails, since that might imply an advanced kind of deception...

Re: Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

#8

6 minutes and 48 seconds? Some YouTuber can find the location in 0.1 second. I don't know if those videos are fake.

If you are a professional geoguessr player, you play so many games that it’s not unrealistic to get very good guesses once in a while. But I wouldn’t be surprised if some form of cheating is happening.

Not just cheating, but just lots of meta, from the blurred number plates color/format, to the stitching of the image at the bottom, mounting location of the camera on the google car. There are list which variant of car was used in which countries and so on. Which is still impressive but not quite the same as just guessing from the image

Re: Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

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post #7

> I’m confident it didn’t cheat and look at the EXIF data on the photograph, because if it had cheated it wouldn’t have guessed Cambria first. If I was cheating on a similar task, I might make it more plausible by suggesting a slightly incorrect location as my primary guess. Would be interesting to see if it performs as well on the same image with all EXIF data removed. It would be most interesting if it fails, since…

He mentions this in the same paragraph:

> If you’re still suspicious, try stripping EXIF by taking a screenshot and run an experiment yourself—I’ve tried this and it still works the same way.

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