Malaysia couple travel hours to tour site after watching AI-created video, unaware it’s unreal

A Malaysian couple travelled for three hours from Kuala Lumpur to the country's state of Perak to visit a tourist spot that exists only in an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video. On June 30, a member of staff at a hotel in Perak s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1634#7706)

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