If you plan a trip using AI, triple check that the locations it recommends visiting actually exist.

The BBC reports that unsuspecting tourists all over the world are leaning on AI to plan vacations — and getting themselves into potentially dangerous situations because AI model are hallucinating fictitious locations.

In one instance, two tourists were traipsing through Peru to get to a nonexistent “Sacred Canyon of Humantay” in the Andes Mountains when they were stopped by a local tour guide who overheard them and quickly became alarmed.

“This sort of misinformation is perilous in Peru,” the tour guide, Miguel Angel Gongora Meza, told the BBC. “The elevation, the climatic changes and accessibility [of the] paths have to be planned. When you [use] a program [like OpenAI’s ChatGPT], which

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