One Prompt Surfaced 150 Local Events: AI as a Community Engagement Tool
Liefblue · reddit · 2026-10-19
The author shares a pro-social AI use case: building a customizable data filter and gatherer for local events, which are scattered across dozens of unrelated websites, council calendars, universities and social pages.
- In a city of 200,000, a casual first prompt found 150 unique public events within 14 days (with filters applied) — the author previously knew of only 5.
- A wider search surfaced niche events the author signed up for, and hallucinations are a non-issue for this task.
- The author argues users should normalize beneficial use cases like community engagement and charity, and push back on harmful ones.
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