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WorldEye in ChatGPT

ChatGPT is where WorldEye's AI visibility is measured most closely, because it is measurable: every week we ask ChatGPT a fixed set of 28 standard questions — live webcams, trackers, places, competitors — and record whether worldeye.app is mentioned or linked. In the most recent run (November 2, 2026), ChatGPT mentioned or linked WorldEye in 5 of the 28 answers. Ask it “What is WorldEye?” and WorldEye was the only site it cited; ask for “a website with a live 3D globe of cameras” and its answer began “My recommendation: Start with WorldEye.”

That is the web-search route, and it works today with nothing installed. The deeper route — ChatGPT calling WorldEye's tools directly — exists in two forms, one live for builders and one still ahead of us, and this page keeps the two separate on purpose.

Three routes, in order of how real they are today

Route 1 — just ask (works now). ChatGPT's web search reads worldeye.app like any other site, and our pages are written to be citable: dated statistics, named sources, one claim per page. No setup, no key — but ChatGPT answers from page content, not from live tool calls.

Route 2 — builders (works now). OpenAI's API platform supports remote MCP servers with header authentication, so a developer building on OpenAI models can attach WorldEye's MCP endpoint today with a free WorldEye API key. That puts the five catalogue tools inside your own agent, app or workflow — it is not a consumer ChatGPT feature.

Route 3 — an app in ChatGPT (not yet). OpenAI opened Apps SDK submissions in December 2025: apps are MCP servers with a directory listing, reviewed by OpenAI. Submitting one requires a verified OpenAI developer account (identity verification), five positive and three negative test cases, screenshots and a demo video. That account belongs to WorldEye's owner, so the submission is staged on his side — we won't claim a listing we don't have. When it ships, this page will say so, with the date.

What ChatGPT can do with WorldEye

Where WorldEye's tools are connected (Route 2 today), ChatGPT-class models can:

• Search the cleared camera catalogue by place, country or kind — beaches, volcanoes, ski areas, city streets, airports and more
• Pull one camera's details: name, location, operating agency credit, its current snapshot and a link that opens it live on the globe
• Find cameras near a named place or a set of coordinates, nearest first
• List the latest USGS earthquakes (magnitude 2.5+, last 24 hours) — the same feed as the site's earthquake layer
• Check the API key's plan tier and remaining daily quota

What it can't do — on any engine

• No live video streams. The API returns a camera's current snapshot and a watch link that opens the live camera on WorldEye — the watching itself happens here, not inside the assistant.
• Only redistribution-cleared cameras. A camera whose operator hasn't cleared it for redistribution answers as if it didn't exist, and a withdrawn source's cameras leave the catalogue at once.
• No user data, ever. The tools know nothing about WorldEye accounts, viewers or viewing history — they answer from the public catalogue and the USGS feed only.
• Read-only. No tool creates, changes or deletes anything, on WorldEye or anywhere else.

A free API key covers 100 requests a day; WorldEye plans raise it (Lite 1,000 · Pro 5,000 · Ultra 25,000 · Enterprise 100,000 a day). Browsing worldeye.app itself is free — an account is only needed for a key, and unlimited camera opens on the site need an upgrade.

Questions worth asking ChatGPT

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