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RAG(also: Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

An AI architecture pattern that pairs a large language model with an external knowledge store (typically a vector index of text chunks) so that, for each user query, relevant documents are retrieved first and injected into the prompt before the model generates a response. RAG…

Red Teaming(also: Generative Red-Teaming, AI Red Teaming)

A structured evaluation practice in which an adversarial team probes a system — traditionally a network or application, increasingly an AI model or conversational agent — with realistic attack scenarios to find failures before malicious actors do. Generative red-teaming…

Red-teaming(also: Red team testing)

A structured adversarial-testing practice in which a dedicated team deliberately attempts to break, manipulate, or provoke harmful outputs from a system — originally from military strategy, now widely used for AI systems including large language models. In an accessibility and…

Replika

Replika is a commercial AI companion app, launched by Luka Inc. in 2017, that offers users a customisable digital avatar designed to 'develop its own personality' through conversational interaction. Users can shape the avatar's appearance, relationship type (friend, mentor,…

Reverse Privacy Paradox

The reverse privacy paradox is a pattern, described by Zhang and colleagues in research on LLM-based conversational agents, in which users appear to disregard privacy concerns in the moment of use while still recognising those concerns exist and being willing to adopt…

Robodebt(also: Online Compliance Intervention)

An automated debt-recovery scheme run by Services Australia (Centrelink) from 2016 to 2020, which used income-averaging algorithms to calculate alleged welfare overpayments and issue hundreds of thousands of debt notices without human review. A Royal Commission in 2023 found the…

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