A None Query Creates Results
- Tim Burns
- Jul 6
- 1 min read
I'm working on an AI RAG client that builds an event list from a poster submitted by an app user. I have been exploring an interesting discovery where the AI uncovered a treasure trove of live performances by a little-known local band.
{
"title": "Splitsville",
"description": "Nothing Personal live performance",
"link": "https://www.howlsplitsville.com",
"image": null,
"startDate": "2025-07-05T21:00:00",
"endDate": "2025-07-06T00:00:00",
"date": "Saturday, July 5, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Splitsville",
"description": "Nothing Personal live performance",
"link": "https://www.howlsplitsville.com",
"image": null,
"startDate": "2025-07-12T21:00:00",
"endDate": "2025-07-13T00:00:00",
"date": "Saturday, July 12, 2025"
},
...
It was a fascinating phenomena, because the poster in question was this:

The AI somehow hallucinated this to link to the schedule of a local band called Nothing Personal. I was perplexed until I saw the run schedule:
INFO:web.app.aws.geovision.common.rest_google_search:🔎🌐 Query: None in "Providence, Rhode Island" with dates and 8 results
Evaluating to None in detection and then augmenting the data with real-world information has surprising and beneficial effects.