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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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grounding

/ˈɡraʊndɪŋ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Asking the model to cite a source, which works only if the organization keeps one.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Constraining a model's output to retrieved, citable evidence rather than its parametric memory alone.

Evidence

Seen in the wild · 4

ISO gave AI a management system. It did not define your training data.Business Sense Required
The €15M Privacy Fine That Collapsed Because Nobody Owned ItOwner Missing
Master data management returns wearing an AI badge. The job description has not changed.Definition Drift
Retrieval-augmented generation is a data-quality project nobody scoped.Business Sense Required

See also

embeddingsCoordinates that faithfully encode whatever bias the source corpus never declared.
ground truthOne analyst's spreadsheet, promoted to truth because no one else volunteered.
hallucinationThe model answering a question the organization had also never answered, only faster.
retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.