maybe it happened
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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AI can be pretty good at finding local events and activity suggestions. Is Googling it any better?
Why is googling it the alternative?
Since google is now using AI for all that shit, probably not.
Kicking and screaming we will go... or we'll be the new version of the hippies that bought farms and started compounds in the 70's.
The only thing that might save us is the price of AI scraping the web being so expensive it's not worth it and we get real search engines again.
We can't even be saved by social media local scopes because the stores and event managers are using AI, the social media is using it to deliver the results to us.
It's shitty, but the guy just did the equivalent of running an ai enabled google or facebook search.
Are you for real? For me it just keeps spewing out locations and events that do not exist or that have been closed since forever
If it does it, it does, no need to explicitly and proactively credit it.
It's less about this specific isolated incident and more about what it suggests broadly about their behavior with respect to ChatGPT.
But even for this specific incident, I'd even say that while less controversial, saying "I'll just google up what to do" would also be a bit of a let down. It suggests a lack of thoughtfulness even if that's really what someone does. Ask for input and then come back with your plans without referring to how you are leaning on some tech, so the person can at least think maybe you put in a measure of actual thought and effert.