{"id":4252,"date":"2026-01-25T18:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/risk-of-ai-model-collapse-to-drive-zero-trust-data-governance-gartner-says\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:37:51","slug":"risk-of-ai-model-collapse-to-drive-zero-trust-data-governance-gartner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/risk-of-ai-model-collapse-to-drive-zero-trust-data-governance-gartner-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of AI Model Collapse to Drive Zero Trust Data Governance, Gartner Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The proliferation of AI data, evolving regulatory requirements and risk of \u00a0large language model\u00a0(LLM) collapse will help to drive take up of zero trust approaches to data governance in the next two years, Gartner has claimed.<\/p>\n

The analyst firm warned that as books, code\u00a0repositories, research papers and other sources start to feature more AI-generated content, future LLMs that scrape these sources will effectively be trained on outputs from previous models.<\/p>\n

That in turn could hasten a decline in model quality and accuracy, and an increase in hallucinations and bias. In response to the surge in unverified AI data, as many as half of global organizations will turn to zero trust data governance, predicted Gartner.<\/p>\n

Regulators will also increase their scrutiny in this area, the analyst claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs AI-generated content becomes more prevalent, regulatory requirements for verifying \u2018AI-free\u2019 data\u00a0are expected\u00a0to intensify in certain regions,\u201d said Gartner managing VP, Wan Fui Chan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this evolving regulatory environment, all organizations will need the ability to identify and tag AI-generated data. Success will depend on having the right tools and a workforce skilled in information and knowledge management, as well as metadata management solutions that are essential for data\u00a0cataloging.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more on zero trust: NIST Publishes New Zero Trust Implementation Guidance.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is where zero trust approaches to data governance could help.<\/p>\n

Chan claimed that authentication and verification measures will soon become \u201cessential to safeguard business and financial outcomes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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According to Gartner, global organizations can get ahead of any forthcoming regulation on data governance and carve out competitive advantage\u00a0by focusing on ways to\u00a0analyze, alert and automate decision making across data assets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It suggested the following steps:<\/p>\n