For grown-ups
Curious
with AI
Every generation of parents has got a new machine they weren’t handed a manual for. We think the useful thing isn’t a list of rules — it’s a better set of questions, asked next to your kid rather than about them.
Where we’re coming from
We make Ellis Mo
with AI. Openly.
Ellis Mo’s instrumental beds are produced with AI tools, under human direction. The lyrics are written by a person. Every science claim in every song is researched and checked against NASA and primary sources before it reaches a chorus, and the fact-checks are kept. Gio — the six-year-old whose real questions shape the albums — is a real kid, recorded in a room.
We say that plainly here because it’s the same thing we’d want any other kids’ brand to tell us. It’s also why this page exists: we’re not observing this from outside.
Try this together
Four things to do
with a curious kid
- 01
Ask it something you already know the answer to
Pick something your kid is an expert in — their favourite dinosaur, the rules of a game they invented. Watch what the machine gets right and what it fudges. The point isn’t to catch it out. It’s that your kid becomes the one doing the checking.
How would we find out if that’s true?
- 02
Make something together, badly, on purpose
A song about the cat. A story where the ending is wrong. Keep the first draft. Then change one instruction and run it again, and talk about what moved. Making something is where the interesting questions come from — not from watching it work.
What would happen if we changed just this one thing?
- 03
Let it be wrong in front of you
Ask it something it will get confidently wrong — a very local fact, something from last week. Being there when it’s wrong is worth more than any warning you could give beforehand.
How did it sound so sure about something that isn’t true?
- 04
Ask who made it, and why
Every tool was built by people, for reasons. That’s a fair question for a seven-year-old to ask about a chatbot, a game, or a video app that somehow knows what they like.
Who made this, and what do they want me to do?
The short version
The question is
the skill.
The thing worth teaching isn’t how to use any particular app — those change every year. It’s the habit of asking how do we know that? and meaning it. That’s the same habit the songs are built around, which is why this sits here and not on somebody else’s website.
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