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RAG Explained: Why Your Chatbot Still Makes Things Up
Retrieval-augmented generation is sold as the cure for hallucination. Stanford measured three RAG-based legal tools and found they fabricated answers 17% to 33% of the time. Here is the actual pipeline, the four places it breaks, and why almost all RAG debugging is search debugging.
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