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AIF-C01 Practice Question: An AI practitioner is evaluating a text…
An AI practitioner is evaluating a text generation model and notices that the model sometimes produces plausible-sounding but factually incorrect statements. What is this phenomenon called?
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Hallucination
Hallucination in LLMs refers to generating content that is not grounded in the training data or provided context. It is a known challenge for generative models.
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Hallucination
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Hallucination is the generation of false or nonsensical information that appears credible.
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Catastrophic forgetting
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Catastrophic forgetting occurs when a model loses previously learned knowledge after fine-tuning on new data.
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Bias amplification
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Bias amplification is when the model reinforces existing biases, not necessarily producing factually incorrect statements.
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Overfitting
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Overfitting means the model memorizes training data and fails to generalize; it does not specifically refer to generating false information.
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