Glossary
Grounding
Grounding is tying an AI model's answer to specific sources you provide, so it uses them instead of guessing from memory.
What it means in practice
Paste the facts or connect your documents and tell the model to answer only from them. It reduces invented answers but does not remove them, so spot-check against the source.
Example
Pasting your price list and saying: answer only from this list, and say when the answer is not in it.
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