🔮The Codex
Grounding
Connecting AI responses to verified, factual sources to reduce hallucination.
📖 Apprentice Explanation
Grounding is when AI backs up its answers with real sources. Instead of just making things up, grounded AI checks its facts against actual documents, websites, or databases before responding.
🧙 Archmage Notes
Grounding techniques include RAG, tool use (web search, calculator), and citation generation. Google's grounding API and Perplexity's approach connect LLM outputs to verifiable sources. Reduces hallucination rates significantly.