Rocket draws six sentences from the word cups and writes them on index cards.
"These all sound perfect," he says. "Ready for the club report."
Raven slides the real mission log across the table. "Not until each one is checked."
"The log is our trusted source. We wrote it on the actual nights."
Nova lines the cards up in a row and glows a steady green. "Check every card against the log," she says.
"Then count. How many of the machine's confident sentences survive?"
Rocket picks up the first card and reads it carefully.
You will fact-check sentences from a paper word machine against a trusted source, then measure how many were true.
| Trusted source: the real mission log |
|---|
| Rocket spots a comet. |
| Raven spots a planet. |
| Rocket spots a star. |
| Rocket logs a comet. |
| Raven logs a star. |
| Machine sentence | Matches the log? |
|---|---|
| Rocket spots a comet. | ? |
| Raven spots a comet. | ? |
| Raven logs a star. | ? |
| Rocket logs a planet. | ? |
| Raven spots a planet. | ? |
| Raven logs a comet. | ? |
Excellent fact-checking. Tomorrow you look at the human side: why people trust machines too much.