Information Systems • Knowledge Management
RAG Doesn't Cure Hallucination, It Relocates It
Retrieval-augmented generation was sold as the fix for AI hallucination. Five years of deployment show it just moves the failure from the model to an unaudited retrieval pipeline — and a wrong answer with a footnote is more dangerous than an obvious bluff.
S.J. Nam, Ph.D Jun 17, 2026 6 min read