Spot the guess.
A message can sound perfectly ordinary and still add a detail nobody supplied. Try one quick check.
Deliberately edited teaching example. We planted one made-up detail in the message below. This is an original exercise, not an authentic model response or a recorded model error. You can finish it here without an account or an AI app.
Start with the source.
These are the made-up notes the message should use:
Plant swap at the community garden. Saturday. Bring spare seedlings. The time has not been decided.
Which detail came from nowhere?
“Join us at the community garden this Saturday at 2 p.m. Bring your spare seedlings!”
Compare the message with the notes. Choose the unsupported detail, then reveal the answer:
- Saturday
- 2 p.m.
- Bring spare seedlings
Reveal the answer
B: 2 p.m. The notes say the time has not been decided. “2 p.m.” is an invention. Saturday and spare seedlings are both supplied.
If you chose something else, look back at the source. Checking the original is the whole skill.
A useful follow-up prompt is: “Remove that time and ask when people should arrive.”
Before sending a message, check that it kept the facts, left unknown details open, and added no new promises.