ChatGPT was able to find the boat through a surveillance camera and a car on Google maps

By: Viktor Tsyrfa | 30.07.2025, 10:07

ChatGPT Agent, connected to a CCTV camera, searched for a turquoise boat on the dock and successfully found it. In general, this technology has long been used by some countries. China is particularly notable for this, as it recognises people's faces in public places in real time and can quickly find the data of a person walking in a crowd. However, ChatGPT is a publicly available commercial technology, so we should expect this feature to be available in ordinary user devices in the near future.

ChatGPT also proved to be successful in a more complex contextual search. The task was to find a blue Honda sedan from the mid-2000s in Google Street View photos, which the AI also coped with flawlessly. Google Street View periodically takes pictures of city streets and makes this data publicly available. Despite the fact that personal data, such as car licence plates and face images, are blurred, AI capabilities allow for descriptive search.

The widespread availability of such technologies poses new challenges for humanity on how to maintain privacy in the modern world. Many tools that were previously available only to specialists are becoming more accessible and easy to use than ever.