AI Associate AI Fundamentals Practice Question
A company uses generative AI to create personalized email content for each customer. They notice that occasionally the AI produces content that is factually incorrect. What is this phenomenon called?
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Hallucination
Hallucination occurs when generative models produce plausible-sounding but incorrect information.
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Hallucination
Why this is correct
Correct. Hallucination is the generation of false information by an AI.
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Overfitting
Why it's wrong here
Overfitting relates to training data, not generating new content.
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Concept drift
Why it's wrong here
Concept drift is about changes in data over time, not content generation errors.
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Bias
Why it's wrong here
Bias refers to systematic prejudice, not factual errors.
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