Transparency about how artificial intelligence powers TourGuide.live
Our commitment: We believe AI-powered content should be clearly disclosed. This page explains exactly how AI is used in our platform so you can make informed decisions about the content you consume.
The historical facts, city descriptions, walking directions, and folklore sections of our tours are generated using Large Language Models (LLMs), primarily OpenAI's GPT-4 models. This content is reviewed for quality but is not independently verified by historians or academic experts.
What this means for you: Our AI-generated content is well-researched and generally accurate for commonly documented historical facts, but may contain errors or oversimplifications. We encourage you to use our tours as a starting point for discovery, not as a definitive historical reference.
Premium stops in our tours include a section labeled "Alleged" or "Alleged Legend." This content represents stories, rumors, or legends that are part of local culture but have not been historically verified.
We include this content because local legends are a genuine part of a city's cultural identity — but we clearly label them as unverified to distinguish them from documented history. This is not sensationalism; it is honest storytelling about the full range of human knowledge about a place.
Premium voice narration is powered by ElevenLabs AI, a text-to-speech technology. The voices you hear are synthetic AI voices, not recordings of human tour guides or actors. We use ElevenLabs' multilingual models to provide narration in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Japanese.
These AI voices are designed to sound natural and warm, but they are not human. ElevenLabs' voice synthesis technology creates novel audio from text in real time.
Premium users can request AI-generated tours for cities not in our standard database. These tours are created in real time by OpenAI's language models based on publicly available information about the requested city. These AI-generated tours have not been reviewed or curated by our editorial team and should be treated with appropriate skepticism about factual accuracy.
While much of our content is AI-generated, our founding team reviews content quality and addresses user feedback about inaccuracies. If you find content that is factually incorrect, offensive, or misleading, please contact us at content@tourguide.live and we will review it promptly.