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You know how everyone is talking about how o3 can guess the location of an image easily? I am kind of wondering why none of the people who are worried about picture geolocation are freaking out that it can infer lots of facts about the author of a text passage.
Is it just that that capability is harder to elicit [1], or is that the "truesight" capability is just less spooky?
It took me almost an hour to come up with a "TextGuessr" prompt which can elicit strong enough "truesight" from gpt-4.5 strongly enough to guess my name ~20% of the time from a 5 paragraph non-crawlable writing sample written after the cutoff date, and I've written about 2M words publicly.
If I feed it code samples it becomes pretty convinced of the Nick Szabo hypothesis, if I feed it bits of the white paper it guesses either you or Hal Finney (but the reasoning summary makes it pretty clear it's just going based off cached thoughts about "who is Satoshi Nakamoto" in both cases).
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Yeah, it shows the favicons of the sites it searches when it uses the search tool