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Why would anyone use an AI trip planner? If I go for a vacation, planning it and deciding what not to plan is a part of the joy of doing it.

Though a big problem at the moment is manipulation of online reviews and recommendations; and as far as I can tell AI is making that worse.

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Everything should be a curated feed of slop. Even your travels.

This pretty much describes most of mainstream media and news pre-AI as well.

From my experience, there are tons of interesting places in my country that hardly get talked about online outside of my native language. You won’t really find them on the SEO-boosted travel blogs that google likes to return either. I feel like this is where AI could actually be useful.

But… isn’t the AI going to parrot those travel blogs?

That's up to the engineers of said AI, if you goal is to have an AI that doesn't do that then you have multiple ways to achieve that goal.

If it’s not talked about much, it won’t be in the training dataset much

From what I’ve seen, AI can do a solid job of bridging language gaps—though it depends on how it’s set up. The data exists, but it’s often buried in native-language sources. By focusing on local content, like newspapers and forum discussions you can shape a dataset that pulls in more authentic, region-specific data.

> Why would anyone use an AI trip planner?

Because not everyone will enjoy what you do? It’s not some secret, I still know people who use travel agents for the same reason, others still who stick to cruising precisely because they dont want to think or plan, they just want to do.

Mystery solved.

I like planning as well (although many people don’t), but I still miss a ton of stuff that chatgpt’s Deep Research can find.

Planning a trip is not at all fun unless you’re doing something very basic.

I despise planning. I put it off until the last minute and usually have no plans as a result. I’m mostly okay with that, but could see AI planning filling that gap for me and would make it easier for me to schedule more complex trips across multiple countries.

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