AI chatbots don’t have the best track record when it comes to accuracy. They appear to struggle with geolocation too, as Bellingcat discovered two years ago in a test of OpenAI and Google chatbots. Bellingcat has now tested them again, this time putting 20 large-language models to work on 25 travel photos to see if things have improved, with Google Lens reverse image search as a control. The result? A few ChatGPT models outperformed Google Lens, but not by much; the rest were worse. Details at the link.
(Update: Bellingcat’s coverage goes in quite a different direction than reports last April highlighting ChatGPT’s “scary” ability to pinpoint locations from photographs, largely because it compares it with existing non-AI reverse image search. Privacy risks may not depend on the kind of technology analyzing the photo, in other words.)