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Therefore, despite models improving it remains vital to keep a human in the loop to ensure a geolocation is precise and correct.

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While many models were good at identifying general areas, pinpointing exact coordinates was more of a challenge. As any online investigator knows, this final stretch in identifying an exact spot is vitally important. Our tests show that human geolocators still have the edge in this area.

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But the tests also showed why humans remain necessary for accurate and trustworthy geolocation work, as no models were foolproof.

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The results showed that the current generation of models have improved geolocation capabilities. Anthropic’s Opus and Fable, as well as Google’s recent Gemini 4 Argon model, performed the best on geolocations, narrowing down locations from images faster than a human could under specific conditions.

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