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Has anyone used AI, like CHatGPT, etc, to help plan their vacation? Find spots and plan the best route? Just curious how well it does
I’m a little biased, but I do not recommend it. While I am super interested in technology and I use many of the AI models constantly to stay up-to-date with the technology, they are often wrong, they hallucinate, and they have no real-world experience (they just regurgitate, most often wrongly what real people have written about).
In fact, a study showed, “Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a much higher error rate, answering 94 percent of the queries incorrectly.”
But, as I’ve pointed out in this thread:
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“…these AI tools are powered by content scraped from human creators. Bloggers, small businesses, and travel experts who’ve poured their hearts into crafting authentic, experience-based advice are seeing their work essentially repackaged by machines and offered as “personalized” itineraries. Let’s be really clear – this is THEFT masquerading as technological innovation.
Companies like Google and OpenAI are pushing their AI products onto travelers purely for profits. But this comes at a cost to you, the traveler: the erasure of the very connection that makes travel meaningful. AI can’t replicate the passion of a travel blogger or fellow community member sharing their favorite off-the-beaten-path destinations, nor can it match the nuanced advice of a local who knows their hometown inside and out.
Instead of embracing AI as the future of travel, we should question who benefits from it.
Spoiler alert: it’s not the traveler. It’s the tech giants who profit from using stolen content to monopolize the travel industry.”
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Just my two cents. Feel free to try it out, but be careful with its output. And if you’re like me, you’ll want to hear what those with experience visiting certain places have to say.
Wow, I didn’t realize they could be that unreliable! I’m sure they’ll get better, but your other points are important too. Thanks for your perspective.
From what little I’ve tried, they lack any up-to-dat einfo like pricing, vacancies, etc. Wasn’t much help for me.
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