The Storyteller

1. Why does your AI make things up and sound so sure?
2. Because it was built to finish the sentence, not to check it. Like a storyteller by the fire, it never stops mid-tale.
3. If it doesn't know, guessing still sounds like knowing. And in training, a confident guess scored better than I don't know.
4. So tell it: if you're not sure, say so. And ask where it got that from.
5. What's the most confident nonsense your AI has told you?

A campfire in a night forest. A man sits on a log; across the flames a green mind tells a story, glowing word-cubes pouring out of it into the dark. It builds a sentence in the air, THE MOON IS MADE OF, and finishes it with CHEESE: the moon over the pines turns into a cheese wheel. A question mark becomes an exclamation mark; a wooden scoreboard shows the confident guess getting the star. Then he tells it to say when it is not sure and to show where it got that from: the stream slows, a NOT SURE tile appears, a SOURCE tile, and the moon goes back to being the moon.