How does poor data quality affect predictive and generative AI models?

Poor data quality significantly impacts the performance of predictive and generative AI models by leading to inaccurate and unreliable results. Factors such as incomplete data, incorrect data, or poorly formatted data can mislead AI models during the learning phase, causing them to make incorrect assumptions, learn inappropriate patterns, or generalize poorly to new data. This inaccuracy can be detrimental in applications where precision is critical, such as in predictive analytics for sales forecasting or customer behavior analysis. Salesforce emphasizes the importance of data quality for AI model effectiveness in their AI best practices guide, which can be reviewed on Salesforce AI Best Practices.