DASF-R-6.2 — Insufficient evaluation data

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 28. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Evaluation datasets can also be too small or too similar to the training data to be useful. Poor evaluation data can lead to biases, hallucinations and toxic output. It is difficult to effectively evaluate large language models (LLMs), as these models rarely have an objective ground truth labeled. Consequently, organizations frequently struggle to determine the trustworthiness of these models in critical, unsupervised use cases, given the uncertainties in their evaluation.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models · Fine-tuned LLMs · Pre-trained LLMs · External Models

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Reduced Organisation Trust in Model Effectiveness and Performance • Introduced Biases • Introduced Hallucinations • Introduced Toxic Outputs • Regulatory Non-compliance • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Legal Fines • Customer Retention • Regulatory Fines and Judgement

Controls

• DASF-22 — Build models with all representative, accurate and relevant data sources
• DASF-25 — Use retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs)
• DASF-47 — Compare LLM outputs on set prompts
• DASF-45 — Evaluate models

Source control guidance

• DASF 22: Build models with all representative, accurate and relevant data sources to evaluate on clean and sufficient data • DASF 25: Use retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs) • DASF 47: Compare LLM outputs on set prompts to assess LLM project with an interactive prompt interface • DASF 45: Evaluate models to capture performance insights for language models

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-6.2. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

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