Generative AI at Work / Unit 2 GAI 031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Confabulation as a Risk
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The idea
NIST's second risk is confabulation, and NIST flags it for close monitoring wherever generative AI feeds consequential decisions.
In practice
NIST notes that legal confabulations, invented cases and misstated holdings, have been shown to be widespread in leading models.
Where people slip
Every later unit on verification exists because this risk cannot be engineered away; it follows from how the models generate text.
Your place on the trail
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