IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) — Question 95

You asked a generative AI tool to recommend new restaurants to explore in Boston, Massachusetts that have a specialty Italian dish made in a traditional fashion without spinach and wine. The generative AI tool recommended five restaurants for you to visit.
After looking up the restaurants, you discovered one restaurant did not exist and two others did not have the dish.
This information provided by the generative AI tool is an example of what commonly called:

Answer options

• A. Prompt injection.
• B. Model collapse.
• C. Hallucination.
• D. Overfitting.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer, C. Hallucination, refers to instances when AI generates information that is incorrect or fabricated. In this case, the AI provided recommendations that included non-existent restaurants and missing dishes. Options A, B, and D describe different issues related to AI but do not pertain to the generation of false information as seen here.