How It Works
Classifiers
AI or machine-learning models that assign an input to one or more categories, such as spam or not spam. In AI safety systems, classifiers can help identify requests or outputs that fall into policy categories; a classification is a prediction and can be wrong.
Origin · no single documented coiner
Established terminology from statistics and machine learning, not a term coined for generative AI. Google's Machine Learning Glossary defines a classifier as a classification model. No single documented coiner is credited here.