Glossary

AI help glossary

Short explanations of common AI terms used throughout this site.

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Context Window

The amount of prompt, conversation, file, and instruction text an AI system can consider at one time.

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Refusal

A response where an AI system declines to provide the requested help, often because of safety, privacy, copyright, or reliability boundaries.

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Hallucination

A fluent AI answer that includes invented, incorrect, or unsupported information.

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Rate Limit

A usage cap that limits how many messages, images, files, or requests can be sent within a period of time.

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Prompt

The user instruction, question, file, or context given to an AI tool.

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Memory

A feature or behaviour where an AI tool retains certain preferences or details beyond the immediate answer, depending on product settings.

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Safety Boundary

A rule or design limit that reduces the chance of harmful, private, age-sensitive, illegal, or unsafe output.

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Content Policy

A provider rule that affects what an AI tool may generate, refuse, summarize, transform, or redirect.