Comment by paxys
10 months ago
Not sure if this is true or not but people have pointed out that it uses data from your past conversations to make a guess.
10 months ago
Not sure if this is true or not but people have pointed out that it uses data from your past conversations to make a guess.
It’s true. Unfortunately I can’t post proof without doxxing myself obviously, but I understand the skepticism considering I’m not sure I’d believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.
I have no memories stored, and in any case it shouldn’t know where I live exactly. The reasoning output didn’t suggest it was relying on any other chat history or information outside the image, but obviously you can’t fully trust it either.
Yeah, I had to turn off chat history after I spotted it doing that.
Also wondering if, as another commenter mentioned, it might be trying to estimate your location just by network means.
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...
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