Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval

grounding

Constraining a generated answer to retrieved source material. Grounding reduces invention but does not eliminate it: a grounded answer can still misattribute which source said what.

Answer engines and retrieval

How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.

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