Hallucinations, Verification and Provenance

3 min
Audience
ages 10–15
Duration
30 to 40 min
Adventure
7/8
Badge to earn
Evidence Checker

Today's mission

Verify a generated answer by separating claim, evidence, uncertainty and correction.

Proof of success: explain "Hallucinations, verification and provenance", complete "The Claims Traffic Light" and name the limit of the analogy.

The story

A fictional assistant claims that the first bridge of the made-up city was built in 1892 and invents a convincing-looking book title. Lila notices the text is fluent but provides no verifiable evidence. A generative model picks probable tokens; this task doesn't force every sentence to be true. She therefore turns the text into separate claims, looks for independent sources and marks what remains unknown.

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