News ChatGPT is now a potent tool for finding the locations of photos, raising doxxing concerns

[Admin]

OpenAI seems to have inadvertently tuned ChatGPT into a potent geo-guesser.

ChatGPT is now a potent tool for finding the locations of photos, raising doxxing concerns : Read more

 

[bit_user]

This is nothing new, IMO. Google Image Search was already pretty good at that sort of thing, particularly if it was a location that's very distinctive.

 

[Konomi]

This is nothing new, IMO. Google Image Search was already pretty good at that sort of thing, particularly if it was a location that's very distinctive.

True - anyone who has dabbled with OSINT is aware there is already plenty of tools you can use to achieve the same result. It just turns out ChatGPT can be added to the list of tools for the job. Same advice applies here anyway - don't share information publicly that could lead to doxxing or other issues, and if you must share information, ensure your privacy settings on various platforms don't let any random person view it.

 

[usertests]

Sounds like a good thing. Maybe you shouldn't share photos online.

 

[Findecanor]

> ... strengthened visual reasoning ...

ChatGPT does no such thing. Artificial "neural networks" are statistics-machines, nothing else.
Please stop attributing them with anthropomorphic attributes that they don't have!

 

[bit_user]

> ... strengthened visual reasoning ...

ChatGPT does no such thing. Artificial "neural networks" are statistics-machines, nothing else.

No, you can't build something that does what they do with mere statistical methods. Their reliance on stochastic mechanisms is roughly similar to your brain, given their design is very abstractly modeled on the structure and function of biological brains.

And yes, it's totally valid to say they can perform reasoning. In fact, there are methods for quantifying exactly how well they're doing at it. Here's a set of benchmarks that HuggingFace has used to compare LLM performance, in their LLM LeaderBoard:

https://huggingface.co/docs/leaderboards/open_llm_leaderboard/about
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I should note that it's a little bit dated and they're apparently no longer updating the leaderboard.