Can LLMs Supercharge Geolocations? Our Tests Show Big Improvements But Humans Remain Key

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. In September, the AI company Anthropic published a blog post that claimed its models were approaching “superhuman capabilities for geolocating outdoor photos”. Anthropic made this claim by comparing its models’ performance to that of players of the popular online game GeoGuessr, which challenges users to geolocate Google Street View images. Bellingcat has been running its own benchmark tests on AI...