Beta terms of use

Tourguide is an AI audio tour guide. You give it a place, it writes a guide using large language models, voices the script using a text-to-speech model, and plays it back.

You’re using a beta. That means: things might break, the product is changing daily, your saved guides might be lost, your account might be reset. We’ll do our best to avoid all of that. We’ll let you know before any destructive change. By using Tourguide during the beta you accept that some rough edges are expected.

• You own the place you typed. The audio Tourguide generates from it is yours to listen to, share, and use however you like.
• You can’t use Tourguide to produce content that defames a real person, incites violence, sexualises minors, harasses any individual or protected group, contains threats of harm, or breaks the law in your jurisdiction. We reserve the right to suspend or delete any account that does.
• If you share a Tourguide guide publicly, please don’t pass it off as an interview with the real people whose voices Tourguide uses — the voices are AI-generated.

Every script, headline, recommendation and voice in Tourguide is generated by artificial intelligence. The guides are not real people; they have no memories, no opinions, and no first-hand knowledge of anything they describe. Tourguide’s outputs:

• May contain factual errors. Large language models sometimes get dates, attributions, or details wrong. We run a fact-checking pass over generated guides to flag obviously unsupported claims, but this is not a substitute for your own judgement.
• Should not be used as professional advice. Nothing in a Tourguide guide is medical, legal, financial, psychological, or other professional advice — even when it sounds confident.
• Should not be presented as a real-person statement. The voices are synthetic and the dialogue is invented. Don’t republish a Tourguide clip in a way that suggests a real person actually said those words.

Tourguide’s scripts are generated by an AI and sometimes get things wrong. We run a fact-checker over generated guides and flag obviously unsupported claims, but you should treat everything Tourguide says the way you’d treat a confident friend at the pub — interesting, often right, but worth a check if it matters.

Generation costs real money (AI tokens, voice synthesis). We rate-limit anonymous use and the free tier; if you abuse the service we may suspend your account.

You can stop using Tourguide any time. To delete your account and every piece of data we hold for you, open Profile → Danger Zone in the app and tap delete. The wipe runs immediately and cannot be undone.

Tourguide is provided “as is” during the beta. We’re not liable for any decisions you make based on something Tourguide said, or for any data loss caused by a beta-stage outage. If Tourguide doesn’t work for you, your remedy is to stop using it.

These terms may change as the product evolves. We’ll flag material changes by email or in-app banner.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. Any dispute that can’t be resolved by talking to us first goes to the courts of England and Wales.

Questions or complaints: christopherjbarrett@mac.com. Tourguide is operated by Christopher Barrett from London, United Kingdom.