{
  "id": 7939123,
  "title": "Woman travels to Chiang Mai for love, finds her ‘pilot’ was AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/woman-travels-to-chiang-mai-for-love-finds-her-pilot-was-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-17T03:25:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Thaiger",
    "slug": "the-thaiger",
    "url": "https://thethaiger.com/news/woman-chiang-mai-ai-generated-pilot"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A 66-year-old woman from Lampang traveled alone to Chiang Mai Airport to meet a man she believed was a pilot named \"Chai.\" She had been viewing content featuring the character on Facebook and developed romantic feelings for him. Upon her arrival at the airport, Chiang Mai Tourist Police and security officers noticed she was waiting alone for the man. After speaking with her and examining the situation, officials discovered that the man was an AI-generated character. The woman had believed the character was a real person and had traveled to Chiang Mai specifically to meet him. Tourist Police, airport staff, and a rescue team assisted her, coordinating with her family to arrange for her safe return to her home province.",
  "summary": "She travelled alone from Lampang expecting to meet a pilot called Chai. Officers found her at the terminal, contacted her son and arranged her journey home. The story Woman travels to Chiang Mai for love, finds her ‘pilot’ was AI as seen on Thaiger News .",
  "key_points": [
    "66-year-old woman from Lampang traveled alone to Chiang Mai Airport.",
    "Believed pilot named Chai was real person, not AI-generated character.",
    "Tourist Police and rescue team assisted her to return safely to home province."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}