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- DeepfakeVideo, images or audio created or altered with AI to make it look or sound like a real person did or said something they didn’t.
- Hallucination (AI)When an AI system states something false or made up as if it were true, such as fake quotes, sources or numbers.
- Large language model (LLM)A type of AI trained on huge amounts of text to predict the next word, which lets it write, summarize, translate and answer questions.
- Prompt injectionAn attack that hides instructions in text an AI reads, such as a web page or email, so the AI follows the attacker instead of you.