{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-27T05:35:47.736Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"wasted-trip","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-xian-man-ai-exhibition-closing-date-answer-wasted-trip-to-beijing","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'他向AI询问了摄影展的闭展时间，决定利用假期去回忆下青春'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Before the May Day holiday the man asked an AI tool when a Suzhou-themed photo exhibition in Beijing would close and decided to visit during the holiday.","causal_attribution":"The man's account as reported; the AI's reply is not quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'我到了之后才发现摄影展提前闭展了，什么也没看着，往返高铁票还花了1000多块。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He says that on arrival he found the exhibition had closed early, saw nothing, and had spent more than 1,000 yuan on return high-speed rail tickets.","causal_attribution":"His own statement of the outcome and cost."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'同样，由于AI对目的地信息更新不及时'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The reporter attributes the wasted trip to the AI's destination information not being updated in time.","causal_attribution":"This causal attribution is the reporter's; no AI output, date or exhibition notice is cited for it."}],"effects":[{"label":"spent over 1,000 yuan on rail tickets for a trip to an exhibition that had already closed (his account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2026/06-17/10641988.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; no human reviewer inspected the text. China News Service (state news agency) consumer feature of 17 June 2026 by a Beijing reporter, quoting the man's own words.","independence_group":"chinanews-2026-06-17"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","finance"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool he used and what closing date it gave.","When the exhibition's early closure was decided and announced, and so whether the AI's answer was already wrong when he asked.","The exact travel date within the May Day holiday period."],"geography":{"basis":"The report places the exhibition in Beijing and says the man works in Xi'an and travelled by high-speed rail. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as an attributed traveller's account in a national news agency feature: he asked an AI tool for an exhibition's closing date, travelled on that basis and lost the cost of the trip. The reporter's attribution to outdated AI information is recorded as such, and the AI's answer remains unpublished.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"China News Service reports that the man asked an AI tool for the exhibition's closing time and planned his holiday trip on that basis, and that he found the exhibition closed on arrival; the reporter attributes the wasted trip to the AI's destination information not being updated in time. The AI's answer is not quoted, the tool is not named, and the report says the exhibition closed early, so whether the answer was wrong when given is not established.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"China News Service reports a man spent over 1,000 yuan on train tickets to a Beijing photo show after asking an AI its closing date, and found it closed early","summary":"China News Service's consumer column 'Minsheng Diaochaju' reported on 17 June 2026 that a photography enthusiast working in Xi'an, who learned before the May Day holiday of a Suzhou-themed photo exhibition in Beijing, asked an AI tool when the exhibition would close and decided to visit during the holiday. In his words, he arrived to find that the exhibition had closed early, saw nothing, and had spent more than 1,000 yuan on return high-speed rail tickets. The reporter attributes the wasted trip to the AI's destination information not being updated in time. The AI's actual answer and the product are not reported.","incidentDate":"2026-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-06-17","aiSystem":"An AI tool the man asked about the exhibition's closing date; the report does not name the product","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By his account to China News Service, the man spent more than 1,000 yuan on return high-speed rail tickets to reach a Beijing exhibition that had already closed; the reporter attributes this to outdated AI information on the closing date.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the man who asked the AI and made the trip. The article's other travellers are separate accounts and are not counted here.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2026/06-17/10641988.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"China News Service, 17 Jun 2026: AI travel planning, 'misled and wasted 1,000 yuan' (Minsheng Diaochaju)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:17:08.77399+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T03:17:08.77399+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["travel-planning","closing-date","wasted-trip","china"]}]}