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

[Seat0B]

This almost sounds racist

No not racist. But a reality for a 91 year old with heating aids.

 

[doctau]

Yeah, fair points about double-checking the details. I always verify anything important, like flight times or bookings, through the actual airline/hotel site anyway. I don't use it to get flight or hotel pricing, as I find it's not reliable. AI is brilliant for the planning stage, though, like helping me figure out rough itineraries or what areas to stay in.

The AI blocker thing isn't really how it works, from what I understand. Those are more about stopping companies from scraping websites for training data, not about blocking us from using ChatGPT or Claude to access their website info as a personal travel assistant. But I get the caution around accuracy, that's definitely real and worth keeping in mind.

I find it's a massive time-saver for the initial research phase. Then I treat it like I would any other travel blog or forum post; helpful info, but always verify the specifics yourself before committing to anything.

Where we'll probably end up is having multiple AI agents behind the scenes that co-operate. The first one helps you with high level planning about where to go and for how long,, a second one to fill in the details, and then a third one who verifies things and makes sure the first two weren't hallucinating.

Then we just need to make sure SkyNet doesn't end up with some kind of multiple identity disorder!

 

[Haplo]

I tried to use google AI to plan for an upcoming holiday next month, it kind of worked but i'll do my own research as well.

Tried to use to search for award flight availability but no luck.

 

[Q Class Plebeian]

I tried to use google AI to plan for an upcoming holiday next month, it kind of worked but i'll do my own research as well.

Tried to use to search for award flight availability but no luck.

AI, like many things in life is overrated.Google is more interested in haresveting data about your spending habits than helping you plan anything.

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