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20 What Happens When AI Directs Tourists to Places That Don't Exist?

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 2 place · today 00:39 EDT

What Happens When AI Directs Tourists to Places That Don't Exist?

The director of a tour operation remembers two tourists arriving in a rural town in Peru determined to hike alone in the mountains to a sacred canyon recommended by their AI chatbot. But the canyon didn't exists — and a high-altitude hike could be dangerous (especially where cellphone coverage is also spotty). They're part of a BBC report on travellers arriving at their destination "only to find they've been fed incorrect information or steered to a place that only exists in the hard-wired imagination of a.

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