GenAI Intermediate — 104: trace retrieval drift on `Synthetic labeling ethics` — memo `531691 [104]`

Lesson 104: Synthetic labeling ethics

Focus

Prefer explicit failure rehearsals over aspirational wording. Token Synthetic labeling ethics:104 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.

Key ideas

• Thread: Synthetic labeling ethics · drill v4 · spin 500192.
• Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
• Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.

Deep dive notebook

Synthetic drill artefacts

Refusal RACI lite

policy_id: REF-557
  allow_when:
    confidence_gt: 0.59
  refuse_when_tags:
    - legal_hold
    - medical_device_unverified
  owner: ethics-oncall-int

Practice

Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 104 Bump literals mindset by 14.