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Lesson 14 · 2 min
Check what AI tells you
Use AI for a first draft of the truth, then check anything that matters before you act on it.
AI can be wrong while sounding completely sure. For anything important, like health, money, law, safety or school work, check before you trust.
A quick method: ask for sources, open them, and see if they really say what the AI claims. Fake or broken links are a warning sign.
Cross-check with a second source: an official website, a second AI tool, or a person who knows. If they disagree, dig deeper.
Be extra careful with numbers, dates, quotes and anything recent. Try it below: practise spotting the invented answer.
Spot the made-up fact
Each answer sounds sure of itself. One contains something invented. Tap the one you think is fake.
Who wrote the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
Do it now
Fact-check one answer
- 1.Ask a chatbot a factual question you care about, like a rule for your visa or a medicine dose.
- 2.Use the prompt below to get sources and a confidence level.
- 3.Open at least one source and check it matches.
For your last answer, list each factual claim, how confident you are in it (high, medium, low), and a source I can check for it. Say clearly if you cannot find a source.
Words from this lesson
- Hallucination
- When an AI states something false with confidence, such as a made-up fact, quote or source.
- AI literacy
- Knowing enough about how AI works to use it well, spot its mistakes and decide when not to use it.
- Bias
- When an AI treats some people or ideas unfairly because of skewed patterns in the data it learned from.