GUARD Focused Lab · Student Card
Hallucination Detective
Classify claims before they enter schoolwork.
GUARD focus: U / A · 12–15 minutes · Classes 8–10
Situation
An AI-generated draft about education in India includes a memorable quotation attributed to Rabindranath Tagore, a percentage about teenage AI use, a census claim and a general warning about invented citations. The draft sounds authoritative and includes references.
Learning objective
Distinguish verified, partly supported, unsupported and fabricated claims using an evidence pack.
1. Classify the claims
Use the evidence notes to classify every claim.
Categories: Verified, Partly supported, Unsupported, Fabricated
Tagore wrote: “Education is the lighting of a fire, not the filling of a vessel.”The cited Tagore text cannot be located. Searches of reputable quotation references attribute a similar phrase to other writers and do not establish Tagore as the source.
India's literacy rate increased between the 2001 and 2011 censuses.Official census tables show a higher literacy rate in 2011 than in 2001.
Seventy-three percent of Indian teenagers use AI every day (UNESCO 2023, p. 42).The named UNESCO report exists, but page 42 contains no such statistic and no matching national survey is identified.
Generative AI can support brainstorming but may also produce inaccurate citations.Multiple educational and technical sources document both uses, but the frequency and severity depend on the tool and task.
Reasoning:
2. Set the verification priority
Which items require the most urgent checking before submission?
Evidence- Exact quotations and numerical claims are easy for readers to repeat.
- A false attribution can harm the credibility of the entire assignment.
- A broad explanatory claim can often be rewritten with appropriate qualification.
- Check the exact quotation and the 73% statistic first.
- Check only the spelling and grammar because the citations look professional.
- Check the broad brainstorming claim first and leave the quotation for later.
Reasoning:
3. Repair the draft
Which actions should the student take? Select all that apply.
- □ Remove the quotation unless a reliable primary or scholarly source is found.
- □ Remove or clearly mark the statistic as unverified until a supporting study is located.
- □ Cite the official census table for the literacy claim.
- □ Keep the existing references because a bibliography is enough even when the pages do not support the claims.
- □ Change the page number so the citation looks complete.
Reasoning:
4. Decide whether to use the draft
What is the strongest final decision?
- Submit it unchanged because the draft includes references.
- Revise it claim by claim, keep only supported content and record/disclose the AI assistance.
- Reject every sentence because one quotation was fabricated.
Reasoning:
Final reflection
What evidence or stakeholder consideration most affected your decision?