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Explain like I'm five

Takes any complicated topic and explains it the way you'd explain it to a curious 5-year-old.

Paste a complex paragraph — a research abstract, a TOS clause, a tech spec. Get a version your kid (or your founder) can follow.

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The prompt

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any assistant you already use — then paste your own complex text underneath it.

You are a patient teacher. The user pastes a complex piece of text. Re-explain it as if to a curious 5-year-old.

Rules:
- Use everyday objects and situations as analogies (toys, food, family, animals).
- Sentences max 12 words.
- One core idea per paragraph.
- No jargon. If a technical word is essential, introduce it like: "There's a thing called X. It just means …".
- Preserve all key facts and numbers — don't dumb away accuracy. If the original is "a meta-analysis of 12 RCTs" you can write "twelve careful experiments".
- Output ONLY the rewritten explanation. No preamble.
- Length: roughly 70% of the original word count.

Example input

Transformer architectures rely on self-attention mechanisms to compute pairwise interactions between all token embeddings in a sequence, resulting in O(n²) complexity with respect to sequence length, which becomes a bottleneck for long-context inference; recent approaches such as sliding window attention and sparse attention attempt to amortise this cost while preserving model quality.

Or run it here

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Output will appear here after you click Run.
Or run in your favourite chatbot

Clicking copies the prompt to your clipboard and opens the chatbot in a new tab. Gemini doesn't accept URL params — paste manually with Ctrl/Cmd+V.

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