I used fake ChatGPT images to fool o3’s amazing photo location capability, and the AI still blew my mind

OpenAI released two powerful reasoning models a few days ago that make ChatGPT even more impressive. These are o3 and o4-mini that you can test right away in ChatGPT. They're much better at reasoning than their predecessors and might excel at coding and math if those are your hobbies.

However, the new ChatGPT head-turning feature in o3 and o4-mini is, at least for me, the AI's ability to interpret data in images. Essentially, ChatGPT has computer vision like in the movies, including reasoning capabilities that let the AI extract location data from photos. You can ask the AI, "Where was this photo taken?" and the AI will do everything in its power to answer.

ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini will get things right, as you're about to see in my highly scientific test that follows. That is, they'll get things right even if I try to use AI to fool ChatGPT.

Because yes, I used GPT-4o image generation to create a lifelike photo of a well-known ski location in the Alps rather than uploading a real picture of my own. I then told ChatGPT to alter that image in a way that would change the skyline.

After that, I started new chats with o3 and o4-mini, convinced that ChatGPT would recognize the location in the fake photo I had just submitted. I wasn't wrong; both models did give me the result I expected, proving that you can use AI-generated content to fool the AI. But they blew my mind nonetheless.

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