Hallucination
When AI states something false with total confidence. Its mistakes sound exactly as sure as its correct answers.
In practice
Inventing a report from an institute that does not exist.
Where students meet it
Hallucination is taught in Lesson 13, Trust But Verify: AI Hallucinations & Fact-Checking, part of the Ethics & Trust unit of the AI Explorers course for kids. Soleil is the guide for that lesson, and it is one of 8 terms in the unit.
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Hallucination is one of 58 terms students meet across 16 video lessons that teach them to direct AI rather than just use it.