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Does RAG reduce LLM hallucination?

Answered from AI Interview #6 - 1M context window in LLM? · Gaurav Sen · 2026-09-22

Tanishka says it does. Without retrieval, the model never sees the company's internal documents, so it can miss details or invent facts. Passing the relevant chunks with the query means the LLM answers from supplied context. Tanishka adds that checking whether the model sticks to that context is a separate job handled through evaluation.

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