Generative AI and AI‑styled videos can fabricate attractions or give authoritative‑sounding but wrong logistics (hours, routes), sending travelers to places that don’t exist or into unsafe conditions. As chatbots and social clips become default trip planners, these 'phantom' recommendations migrate from online error to physical risk.
— It spotlights a tangible, safety‑relevant failure mode that strengthens the case for provenance, platform liability, and authentication standards in consumer AI.
Ted Gioia
2025.12.30
85% relevant
Ted Gioia highlights AI‑generated, non‑existent book recommendations (and broader ‘AI slop’) that mislead readers — directly analogous to the 'phantom' recommendations that send people to non‑existent attractions; both are cases where generative models create authoritative‑sounding but false artifacts that migrate from the web into real‑world expectations.
EditorDavid
2025.10.06
100% relevant
BBC’s examples: ChatGPT’s wrong ropeway timing on Mount Misen; Layla suggesting an 'Eiffel Tower' in Beijing; a TikTok‑viral Malaysian cable car that didn’t exist.
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