Doxxing—The malicious practice of researching and publishing someone's private information online without their consent.
OpenAI’s latest release of ChatGPT has just made doxxing trivially easy: Upload a photo, ask ChatGPT to geolocate it, and chances are you will get a very precise location.
Want to know where your ex is partying this weekend? Just screenshot her Instagram Reels and let ChatGPT do the digging. To say this is messed up is an understatement…
There appear to be few safeguards in place to prevent this sort of “reverse location lookup” in ChatGPT, and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, doesn’t address the issue in its safety report for o3 and o4-mini.
