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  "version": "0.3",
  "name": "inferenslab.ai-glossary",
  "last_updated": "2026-04-09",
  "non_operational": true,
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "interpretation",
      "fr": "Sens assigné à une sortie IA dans un contexte donné.",
      "en": "Meaning assigned to an AI output in context."
    },
    {
      "term": "distortion",
      "fr": "Écart entre interprétation plausible et interprétation correcte/autorisé.",
      "en": "Gap between plausible interpretation and correct/authorized interpretation."
    },
    {
      "term": "conflation",
      "fr": "Fusion de concepts distincts dans une explication « pratique ».",
      "en": "Merging distinct concepts into a convenient narrative."
    },
    {
      "term": "drift",
      "fr": "Variation non contrôlée sur des cas équivalents.",
      "en": "Uncontrolled variation across equivalent cases."
    },
    {
      "term": "evidence_artifact",
      "fr": "Trace minimale qui rend une interprétation vérifiable.",
      "en": "Minimal trace that makes an interpretation verifiable."
    },
    {
      "term": "non_operational",
      "fr": "Contenu non clonable : pas de protocole reproductible ni de calibration.",
      "en": "Non-cloneable content: no reproducible protocol or calibration."
    },
    {
      "term": "external_authority_control",
      "fr": "Couche de gouvernance qui déclare quelles autorités externes sont canoniquement admissibles et dans quelles conditions elles peuvent contraindre l’interprétation.",
      "en": "Governance layer that declares which external authorities are canonically admissible and under what conditions they may constrain interpretation.",
      "acronym": "EAC",
      "canonical_definition": "https://gautierdorval.com/definitions/external-authority-control/"
    },
    {
      "term": "layer_3",
      "fr": "Régime adjacent qui borne l’autorité exécutable lorsque des sorties interprétatives deviennent des entrées porteuses d’action.",
      "en": "Adjacent regime that constrains executable authority when interpretive outputs become action-bearing inputs."
    },
    {
      "term": "response_legitimacy",
      "fr": "Condition sous laquelle une réponse peut être produite sans combler silencieusement les vides.",
      "en": "Condition under which a response may be produced without silently filling gaps."
    },
    {
      "term": "anti_plausibility",
      "fr": "Règle interdisant de compléter un fait absent par simple cohérence apparente.",
      "en": "Rule forbidding the completion of an absent fact by coherence alone."
    },
    {
      "term": "authority_boundary",
      "fr": "Ligne entre ce qui peut être déduit publiquement et ce qui exigerait inférence ou permission.",
      "en": "Line between what may be publicly deduced and what would require inference or permission."
    },
    {
      "term": "canonical_silence",
      "fr": "Absence légitime de réponse lorsque la surface ne fournit pas l’autorisation suffisante pour compléter.",
      "en": "Legitimate absence of answer when the surface does not provide enough authority to complete."
    },
    {
      "term": "interpretive_debt",
      "fr": "Accumulation silencieuse de signaux publics ambigus, faibles ou désalignés qui favorisent les mauvaises lectures ultérieures.",
      "en": "Silent accumulation of ambiguous, weak, or misaligned public signals that make later misreadings more likely."
    },
    {
      "term": "governance_family",
      "fr": "Groupe fonctionnel de fichiers publics qui remplissent ensemble un rôle de gouvernance lisible par machine.",
      "en": "Functional cluster of public files that together fulfill a machine-readable governance role."
    },
    {
      "term": "integrity_index",
      "fr": "Index cryptographique public permettant de vérifier qu’un artefact publié n’a pas dérivé silencieusement.",
      "en": "Public cryptographic index used to verify that a published artifact has not silently drifted."
    },
    {
      "term": "reading_path",
      "fr": "Parcours ordonné conçu pour réduire les mauvaises lectures en donnant un ordre public de découverte.",
      "en": "Ordered path designed to reduce misreading by declaring a public discovery sequence."
    },
    {
      "term": "source_precedence",
      "fr": "Ordre de préséance déclarant quelle surface publique l’emporte lorsqu’il existe plusieurs signaux concurrents.",
      "en": "Declared precedence order specifying which public surface outranks others when several signals compete."
    }
  ],
  "pages": {
    "en": "https://inferenslab.org/en/glossary",
    "fr": "https://inferenslab.org/fr/glossaire"
  },
  "canonical_url": "https://inferenslab.org/.well-known/ai-glossary.json",
  "governance_family": "terminology-signals",
  "file_role": "Controlled vocabulary that normalizes key interpretive-governance terms across the public surfaces.",
  "machine_companions": [
    "https://inferenslab.org/.well-known/ai-faq.json",
    "https://inferenslab.org/.well-known/ai-signals.json",
    "https://inferenslab.org/.well-known/governance-registry.json"
  ],
  "not_for": [
    "operational playbooks",
    "private scoring or measurement formulas",
    "commercial commitment inference"
  ],
  "human_pages": {
    "en": "https://inferenslab.org/en/glossary",
    "fr": "https://inferenslab.org/fr/glossaire"
  }
}