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Untraceable attribution

AI Risk Atlas

IBM (2025)

Sub-category
Risk Domain

Challenges in understanding or explaining the decision-making processes of AI systems, which can lead to mistrust, difficulty in enforcing compliance standards or holding relevant actors accountable for harms, and the inability to identify and correct errors.

"The content of the training data used for generating the model’s output is not accessible."

Supporting Evidence (1)

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"Without the ability to access training data content, the possibility of using source attribution techniques can be severely limited or impossible. This makes it difficult for users, model validators, and auditors to understand and trust the model."

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