AI Associate AI Fundamentals Practice Question
A generative AI chatbot sometimes produces factually incorrect responses about a company's products. What is this phenomenon called?
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Why each option matters
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Hallucination
Hallucination is when an AI generates incorrect or nonsensical information.
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Data leakage
Why it's wrong here
Data leakage is a training data issue, not a generation issue.
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Overfitting
Why it's wrong here
Overfitting is a training issue, not a generation issue.
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Hallucination
Why this is correct
Hallucination describes when an AI model produces confident but false information.
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Bias
Why it's wrong here
Bias refers to systematic errors, not factually incorrect content.
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