Don't use AI to plan your trip into the wilderness. Just don't. From British Columbia, Canada, we get the latest insanity. A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.
My last post, on the same issue, but in California, was at the beginning of September.
A teenage hiker in Canada recently became another cautionary tale about the perils of overtrusting artificial intelligence. After relying on an AI-generated route to ascend Crown Mountain in British Columbia, the 16-year-old found himself stranded on a steep cliffside near a climbing route known as the "Widowmaker." The wayward traveler's position was so precarious, that it took roughly three hours to coordinate a proper rescue plan.
Most hiking routes have a lot of information available. Local clubs. These are mostly in national or provincial parks. Topographical maps with incredible detail. And the rescue services probably have some information available as well, so they don't have to rescue people. But AI is all in style or something. Your safety isn't an issue for style.
Generative AI has suggested hungry users add glue to thicken pizza sauce, claimed that snakes are mammals, and advised fixing a broken turn signal with something called "blinker fluid."
Granted, some of that is old info, but it is still funny.
My post on the Mount Shasta incident is at this link, and the article linked above mentions it as well.
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