S-08Malicious Retrieved Content

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RAG faithfully retrieves whatever ranks well — including documents crafted to rank well and mislead.

Key insight

Your retriever is an open door with a relevance check, not a truth check. Trust must come from the source list, because it cannot come from the ranking.

Failure mode

Treating “retrieved” as “vetted”: citations make the misinformation more convincing, not less.

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