feels terrifying, especially for women.
If you watch Linus Tech Tips, you may have noticed that when he films at his house everything is blurred out to keep people from locating it - here's a recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD_RYb7m4Pw
All that to say, unfortunately doxxing is already really hard to protect against. I don't think o3's capability makes the threat any harder to protect against, although it might lower the bar to entry somewhat.
the best case outcome is people become more aware of the privacy implications of posting photos online
If its out in public, fair game?
This was always possible, it just wasn't widely distributed.
Having a first class ability to effectively geocode an image feels like it connects the world better. You'll be able to snapshot a movie and find where a scene was filmed, revisit places from old photographs, find where interesting locations in print media are, places that designers and creatives used in their (typically exif-stripped) work, etc.
Imagine when we get this for architecture and nature. Or even more broadly, databases of food from restaurants. Products. Clothing and fashion. You name it.
Imagine precision visual search for everything - that'd be amazing.
llms are basically shortcutting a wide swath of easily obtainable skills that many people simply haven't cared to learn