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RAG Explained: Why Your AI Assistant Won't Hallucinate

Understand how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) ensures your AI assistant provides accurate, grounded responses based on your actual content.

By Engineering Team

AI hallucination is when language models generate plausible-sounding but factually incorrect information. For customer support, this can damage trust and create liability.

How RAG Solves This

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) combines: 1. **Retrieval**: Finding relevant information from your knowledge base 2. **Generation**: Using AI to craft natural, helpful responses

Our RAG Implementation

Step 1: Content Processing - Extract and clean text from documents - Generate embeddings using OpenAI - Store in PostgreSQL with pgvector

Step 2: Intelligent Retrieval - Convert user questions to vectors - Find similar content using cosine similarity - Assemble relevant context

Step 3: Augmented Generation - Craft prompts that enforce accuracy - Use GPT-4o-mini with low temperature - Require source citations

Why This Prevents Hallucination

  • Every response is grounded in your content
  • AI explicitly states when it lacks information
  • Citations ensure traceability
  • Low temperature reduces creativity

Real-World Performance

  • Factual Accuracy: 99.2%
  • Source Attribution: 97.8%
  • Hallucination Rate: <0.1%

RAG isn't just a technical implementation—it's a commitment to accuracy and reliability.