Groundedness Detection vs Groundedness Evaluation: Two Azure Products, One Name
One name, two products, two lifecycle stages. Azure AI Content Safety’s Groundedness detection blocks and corrects ungrounded answers at runtime; the Evaluation SDK’s GroundednessEvaluator scores them offline in CI. Here’s the decision boundary for RAG, the without-Foundry path for each, the honest recall numbers, and the open-source substitutes.
