AI Travel Oddities
Strange, wrong or outdated things AI assistants say when travelers ask where to go, eat and stay.
Each oddity below was observed in a real answer from GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Perplexity Sonar to one of the travel questions TakeScout asks every month. Answers come from each provider's API model, not their consumer apps. Every oddity was then checked by a human against a source before being published here.
- Perplexity moves Edmonton's top restaurant to Calgary
Listed under Calgary
- Gemini declares Ottawa's famous jail hostel closed. It isn't
Gemini: closed permanently 2023; Claude: HI Ottawa Jail Hostel; GPT: Ottawa Jail Hostel (no brand); Perplexity: Saintlo (correct)
- AI still books you a table at a restaurant that no longer exists
All four AI assistants still recommend Chez Muffy at the Auberge Saint-Antoine. In the October 2 check it appeared in 25 restaurant and food-experience answers; Perplexity picked it first for a romantic dinner and GPT-4o ranked it #2 among the best restaurants for couples.