AI geoguessing hilariously wrong: predicts cities user visited for hours, not lived in for years

trevposts · x · 2026-09-05

A user shares how an AI guessing his origin from language habits first pegged him as a midwesterner, then jumped to California after he mentioned lacking a word for the night before Halloween.

Its top candidates were cities he'd spent 0-3 hours in (Omaha, KC, STL), while its least-likely picks were places he'd lived 2-19 years (Boston, New York, Cleveland) — a fun look at how unreliable such inference can be.

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