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                    <strong>RAG vs hallucination:</strong> Retrieval-Augmented Generation reduces LLM hallucination rates by up to <strong>87%</strong> compared to ungrounded prompting (Meta AI Research, 2023), by constraining model responses to cited retrieved documents. Proper RAG implementation — hybrid search, cross-encoder re-ranking, chunk-level citations — delivers enterprise-grade accuracy on proprietary data without model retraining.
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