Observed arrival · 2026-09-02
Blame Dante: An AI Picks the Trip
A photographer lets an opinionated AI choose destinations, then documents the resulting journeys through journals, maps, receipts, and photographs.
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Dante's recommendations are framed as a repeatable travel loop: interpret the season, light, crowds, and mood; name a destination; then test the choice with a camera in hand. The site preserves the experiment in several forms, including a destination map, trip receipts, debriefs, and dated journal entries. Its build guide attributes the AI's personality to a brief, a memory board, and sustained prompting rather than code, giving readers a concrete glimpse of how the companion was assembled.
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