Oh, great! Now we have an #AI playing Where's Waldo? with our vacation photos 📷🤖. It's like giving HAL 9000 a geography quiz and expecting not to feel a little dystopian while watching it flex its omniscient muscles. Just remember to disable the memory, or it'll act like that creepy kid in class who cheats by reading your notes. 📝🙄
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/ #Waldo #vacationphotos #dystopia #technology #HAL9000 #HackerNews #ngated
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining

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