A municipal food-scraps drop shop already has an approved in-tool assistant, but a tester uses a look-alike personal account with no logging. What makes the personal-account use shadow AI?
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Short Explanation
Shadow AI is about the permission slip, not the logo on the box. A look-alike personal account with no logging is shadow AI because approval and oversight are missing. Model size, multimodal features, or benchmark scores do not define the label.
Full Explanation
Shadow AI is defined by absence of formal approval or organizational oversight. The same underlying model family can be approved in one channel and shadow in another if the personal path has no logging, policy, or authorization. Architecture details and benchmark scores are selection topics; they do not decide whether a use is shadow AI.