Why It Matters
Grounded answers are the practical defense against hallucinations. When evaluating a tool, check whether every claim links to a source you can open, and whether the source actually says what the answer claims.
Related Terms
- RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
- An AI technique that first looks up relevant documents, such as cases or your contracts, and then has the model answer from what it found.
- Citation checking
- Verifying that every case, statute and quote cited in a brief or memo exists, says what it is cited for, and is still good law.
- AI hallucination
- A confident but false answer from an AI tool, such as a citation to a case that does not exist or a quote no court ever wrote.
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