Data Lineage for AI Systems: Tracking the Path from Source to Response
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A user files a support ticket: "Your AI assistant told me the contract renewal deadline was March 15th. It was February 28th. We missed it." You pull up the logs. The response was generated. The model didn't error. Every metric is green. But you have no idea which document it retrieved, what the model read, or whether the date came from the context or was hallucinated entirely.
This is the data lineage gap. And it's not a monitoring problem — it's an architecture problem baked in from the start.
