Just hit 50% of my friends using AI to plan their vacations

Honestly, I was just scrolling through my group chats and realized half of them are now using some kind of AI travel planner. It wasn't a slow creep either, it felt like it happened in maybe the last 6 months. I remember my buddy Mark in Chicago saying he booked a whole trip to Portugal using one of those apps that finds deals and builds an itinerary. It matters because it's not just about travel, right? It feels like we're handing over a big chunk of personal decision-making to these systems. I'm a bartender, so I hear people talk about this stuff all the time, and the trust factor is huge. They just plug in their budget and dates and let the bot handle the rest. It makes me wonder if in 10 years, planning anything yourself will seem weird or inefficient. Has anyone else noticed a specific area where AI just suddenly became the normal way your friends do things?

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rowan_wells3016d ago

My cousin used one to plan her wedding... the AI picked a color scheme that was just different shades of beige.

kai_webb9116d ago

Yeah, I read an article about how these AI planners are really good at finding those weird, cheap flight combos a person would never think to try. Like, flying into a smaller city and taking a train to save hundreds. That's the hook, I guess. Once you see that savings, it's hard to go back to doing it all yourself.

diana_kim6616d ago

It sounds good in theory, @kai_webb91, but is it worth the extra hassle? Saving a couple hundred bucks sounds nice until you're stuck on a six-hour layover in some random airport or dragging your bags onto three different trains. The time and stress might just cancel out the savings... makes you wonder if the easy way is sometimes better.