Are you using AI / ChatGPT for travel planning and while travelling?

[Pushka]

Yes Gemini is definitely off camber. I asked for a list of recent suspense best selling book titles and it came back with 2 authors I knew but fictitious titles. When I called it out the actual answer back was that it had panicked when I had given my specifications and so had made up some titles. I mean that’s just weird.

Sometimes if important I start the search with Facts Only. Or, My future depends on accuracy. etc. that sometimes helps.

 

[kookaburra75]

Sometimes if important I start the search with Facts Only. Or, My future depends on accuracy. etc. that sometimes helps.

That's an important thing to do. Set some guardrails/boundaries at the start. All generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude etc) have a shortcoming which is technically referred to as "sycophancy", where they try and make you happy. That might involve making stuff up to provide you with a long list of answers, what might seem authoritative answers and so on. You might see phrases in responses like "... what a great suggestion", "... what do you think?" etc. It's like having a bad puppy - that sits there wagging its tail.