An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don’t exist.
An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don’t exist.
I had ChatGPT plan my trip to Sydney and had an amazing time! 6 days slam packed with Museums, events and amazing food. All of the places I went to existed, were awesome and saved a decent amount of money by buying packages and getting tickets ahead of time.
It did a decent job when I visited the small city of Whangerei as well. It didn’t invent places that didn’t exist but it did tell me it didn’t have a while lot of data. Now that I live here I realize that most events are word of mouth or private Facebook groups SSSI totally reasonable that it didn’t have access to it.
Yes. This very real person who very obviously really exists had a great time using a service that’s noted for hallucinating places into being and never, not even once had it fail on him, even on obscure places.
This story is as real as this very real person and his very real girlfriend up in Canada who you’ve never heard of but is totally a supermodel.
Here’s the itenerary it created. I’ve only redeacted our names. See if you can find anywhere that doesn’t exist or has a different address then it states or has different opening hours.
MON 8th Weather in Auckland: sunny, chilly 12:30+ Drive to Auckland 2.5 hours 2:30+ Shopping? Driving through Albany, CBD, can go to Britomart Shoes for **? Glasses for **? 3:00+ Hotel check in JetPark Auckland Airport Hotel - 63 Westney Road, Mangere, Auckland Dinner - in Mangere, Auckland Flying Fish - in our hotel - 5-10 pm Visaya - nearby - 5-10 pm
TUE 9th Weather in Auckland: sunny, mild
5:30ish Arrive at Airport 7:30 Flight departs - QF 142 Terminal I(ndigo) 9:15 Flight lands (Sydney time)
Weather in Sydney: breezy, morning showers, then sun Drop off luggage at hotel – ibis Sydney Darling Harbour — 70 Murray St Breakfast 11:30 Tower Eye VR Experience (tickets purchased) 12:00 Tower Eye Reservation
WED 10th Weather: cooler, clouds clearing, possible showers 10:00–11:00 Sydney Opera House Guided Tour – BOOKED 11:30–13:00 SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium Opens Mon–Fri 10:00–17:00 (last entry 16:00) – aim for early slot to avoid crowds & fit into trip 1 13:15–14:00 Lunch around Darling Harbour 14:15–15:45 WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo Open daily from 10:00–17:00, last entry 16:00; ~90 min visit; pre-book slot now 2 16:00+ Optional – The Rocks Discovery Museum or MCA (both free) Evening – Art Gallery of NSW (late on Wed) or dinner at Barangaroo
THU 11th Weather: strong winds, partly sunny Morning free – Royal Botanic Garden walk or Fringe Festival street acts (Opening Night vibes in The Rocks) 12:00–13:00 Lunch in The Rocks 13:00–15:30 Australian Museum (natural history, free) or add a short visit to Chinese Garden of Friendship 16:00+ Depending on energy, evening stroll Darling Harbour or Fringe outing (e.g., immersive street show at Central precinct)
FRI 12th Weather: sunny, chilly 10:00–12:30 Taronga Zoo via ferry 13:00–14:00 Lunch back in city 14:15–16:15 Australian National Maritime Museum – free galleries or upgrade to See-it-All before last vessel boarding (~15:10) 16:30+ Ferry back / light rail to hotel Evening – Fringe Festival cabaret or return to Tower Eye night views if desired
SAT 13th Weather: plenty of sunshine Morning – Manly Beach via ferry; lunch in Manly with GF options Afternoon – Fringe Festival (Entertainment Quarter: Fool’s Paradise or Dance Hub) 20:30 Drone show – Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour
SUN 14th Weather: sunny, mild 11:00- Hotel checkout New hotel – ibis Sydney Airport (Mascot) — 205 O’Riordan St 12:00–13:00 Fringe Festival encore, or stroll The Rocks / QVB / Maritime galleries 14:00 St. Mary’s Cathedral Tour 16:00+ Dirk to relaxed dinner near Mascot + early night
MON 15th Weather: mostly cloudy 7:10ish Arrive at Airport 9:10 Flight departs – QF 3 – Terminal 1
I can type an itinerary too after the fact.
How’s your Canadian supermodel girlfriend?
And why would I do that?
Really you’re the only person who can answer why you’d fake shit to make LLMbeciles look good.
But you be you, Boo.
the propaganda bots are out in a rage today. Go puke words somewhere else why don’t you?
Did you bother looking at my account to see if I display bot tendencies or did someone stating a counter experience simply trigger your automatic not defense? Take a look at my account and see if I display any fucking bot tendencies.
Person disagrees with your world view = bot
Wrong sub?
Only if you only want echo chambers
It’d be nice to escape the LLMbecile echo chamber, but even when a place is literally called “Fuck AI” you LLMbecile servicers materialize and stink everything up.
If every damned media outlet and every damned corporation weren’t already pushing how great LLMbeciles are, you’d be more welcome here. But currently, the whole fucking world is an echo chamber of how good LLMbeciles are, even as they burn down all the forests, taint all the water, and generally fuck up everything they touch. So how 'bout you go back to your massive echo chamber and leave us to where we get some respite from you jackasses, eh?