My nephew asked me why his chatbot 'lies' and I couldn't give him a straight answer for 10 minutes
He is 11 and built a little homework helper with one of those free AI tools, and it kept making up facts about volcanoes. I tried to explain hallucinations using a pizza analogy and he just stared at me. What finally clicked for him was when I said the model is guessing the next word instead of looking stuff up, like autocomplete with a big imagination. Now he tests every answer twice with a different question and writes down the ones that flip. How do you explain this stuff to kids without making it sound like the tool is broken?