Module 2 of 5Lesson 2 of 2~12 min
Fabrications, sources and confidential data
An AI assistant can make up a source, misread a document or expose sensitive information. This lesson helps you recognize these three risks before they cost you or your company, and choose for each task the right precaution before you start using the tool.
Lesson objective
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to spot the three main risks of an AI assistant (fabrications, misread sources, exposed data) and choose the right precaution before using it for a given task.
Topics covered
- AI hallucinations
- sources
- confidential data
- AI risks
In the glossary
Where it fits
Understanding what these tools do
What happens when I ask an AI assistant a question, and what becomes of what I paste into it?
Lessons in this module
- How an AI assistant produces an answer
- Fabrications, sources and confidential data (this lesson)
What you will learn in this module
This lesson is part of the course Choosing and using AI tools at work
- Explain how a generative AI assistant works and what it does well or badly, so you know what to ask of it.
- Identify a tool's limits (fabrications, sources, freshness, data privacy) and the precautions to take before using it.
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