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Purportedly AI-Generated Travel Information Reportedly Misled Tourists into Seeking Nonexistent 'Sacred Canyon of Humantay' in Peru
- Occurred
- Sep 29, 2025
- Published
- Oct 6, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Two tourists in Peru reportedly relied on AI-generated travel information describing a nonexistent destination called the "Sacred Canyon of Humantay." One tourist had paid nearly $160 to reach a rural road near Mollepata without a guide or actual destination. Trek operator Miguel Ángel Góngora Meza intervened after seeing the purportedly AI-generated itinerary and warned that such misinformation could expose travelers to serious risks in high-altitude Andean terrain.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- Travelers
- Tourists seeking the supposed Sacred Canyon of Humantay
- tourists
- Chatbot users
Harmed parties
- Travelers
- tourists
- OpenAI users
- Epistemic integrity
- Consumers
- Chatbot users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated misinformation led tourists to a nonexistent location, causing financial loss and safety risks.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8