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Where Is “Zero-Hallucination” RAG Actually Required in Production?

I’m exploring building a commercially licensed RAG system for high-stakes, regulated domains where the cost of being wrong is far higher than the cost of abstaining.

The goal is strict faithfulness: near-zero hallucination, and responses that are always grounded in verifiable citations (or no answer at all).

Typical in-house RAG setups don’t seem sufficient for this level of reliability, especially in areas like insurance, healthcare, or legal.

For those who’ve worked in such environments:

  • Which domains actually need this level of rigor?
  • Where have you seen real pain from hallucinations or weak retrieval?
  • Any specific use cases where “answer only if provably correct” would be a game changer?

Looking for practical insights more than theoretical ideas.

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u/EnvironmentalFix3414 — 20 hours ago