Grounding
[/ˈɡraʊndɪŋ/]
Definitions
The process of connecting an AI model's outputs to verified, real-world information sources. Grounding reduces hallucination by anchoring responses to retrieved documents, databases, or live data rather than relying purely on the model's learned parameters.
“Grounding the chatbot in our product database eliminated the fabricated feature claims.”
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