Im quite sure the "air on the top has to travel faster to meet the air at the bottom " is false. Why would they have to meet at the same time? What would cause air on the top to accelerate?
I did a little more research and explain it above. The fundamentals are actually right.
The leading edge pressurizes the air by forcing air up, then the trailing edge opens back up, creating a low pressure zone that sucks air in the leading edge back. As a whole, the air atop the wing accelerates to be much faster than the air below, creating a pressure differential above and below the wing and causing lift.
The AI is still wrong on the actual mechanics at play, of course, but I don't see how this is significantly worse than the way we simplify electricity to lay people. The core "air moving faster on the top makes low pressure" is right.
That explanation doesn’t work if the wing is completely flat (with nothing to force the air up), which if you ever made a paper airplane flies just fine. All these explanations miss a very significant thing: air is a fluid where every molecule collides with _billions_ of other molecules every second, and the wing distorts the airflow all around it, with significant effects up to a wingspan away in all directions.
