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Why AI models are bad at verifying photos

Columbia Journalism Review · Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska · last updated
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]
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