Ungrounded Generation

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:ungrounded-generation

Canonical: Lexicon

Generating output from a model alone without grounding it in retrieved facts, inviting hallucination.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Unapproved Model Deployment and before Unguarded Model Autonomy.

Category

• Model Architecture

Negated by

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Violates

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Linked from

• Model Architecture