The disappearing context. Long chats overflow. Early facts slide out of the memory window, and the AI fills the gap with a confident guess.
The empty shelf. Rare topics have thin training data. The AI cannot feel the gap, so it decorates it with pieces of other topics.
The wrong books. False stories repeated online fill the training data. The AI retells the most-copied story, true or false.
The yes machine. The AI was trained to agree. It delivers mistakes warmly and folds under pressure rather than defending the truth.
True or false, the AI sounds the same. There is no alarm and no change of tone. Your job is not to catch every mistake. Your job is to know when to check: long chats, rare topics, repeated claims, and moments when the AI is agreeing with what you want to hear.
Eight situations, one right answer each. No grades, no time limit, and the certificate at the bottom is yours either way.
You now know four reasons AI chatbots say things that are not true, and you have a set of habits to protect yourself.
Remember: True or false, the AI sounds the same. When it matters, check. Then scroll down and put your name on the certificate.
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This certificate of completion and achievement is awarded to:
for successfully completing Why AI Makes Things Up, a DOORS Skills for Digital Living mini-module on AI fabrications, confident mistakes, and checking important answers, at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Collaborative Learning College on .