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by kromem 848 days ago
Having details in context seems to reduce hallucinations, which makes sense if we'd switch to using the more accurate term of confabulations.

LLM confabulations generally occur when they don't have the information to answer, so they make it up, similar to it you've seen split brain studies where one hemisphere is shown something that gets a reaction and the other hemisphere is explaining it with BS.

So yes, RAG is always going to potentially have confabulations if it cuts off the relevant data. But large contexts themselves shouldn't cause it.