[SamPatt]

They aren't fake. I'm a Master I level Geoguessr (the penultimate competitive ranking) and what the pros can do is very real.

I looked at the image in the post before seeing the answer and would have guessed near San Francisco.

It seems impressive to someone if you haven't played Geoguessr a lot, but you'd be surprised at how much information there is about location from an image. The LLMs are just verbalizing what is happening in a few seconds in good player's mind.

[raincole]

The fact some humans can do that doesn't make it any less impressive to me.

I knew Terence Tao can solve Math Olympia questions and much much much more difficult questions. I was still very impressed by AlphaProof[0].

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...

[SamPatt]

I couldn't agree more. It's very impressive. I'm just countering the claim that it might be cheating. Of course, sometimes it might be, but knowing what I know now, it's completely possible.