Optimize AI Accuracy: Fix Data Issues to Reduce HallucinationsOptimize AI Accuracy: Fix Data Issues to Reduce Hallucinations
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RAG is not the bottleneck. Your data is.
Everyone's tweaking embeddings, swapping models, A/B testing prompt formats. Then they ship. Then the bot still hallucinates.
Here's where I usually see things break:
🚫 What people debug • "Maybe gpt-4o is the wrong model" • "Try a different embedding model" • "Increase top_k to 20" • "Add a reranker, that'll fix it"
✅ What actually fixes it • Chunk by meaning, not by 500 tokens • Keep the source structure (headings, tables, lists) • Write summaries of long sections, embed those too • Drop duplicates, drop legal footers, drop nav menus • Test on real user questions, not your own
Most "AI accuracy" problems are data problems pretending to be model problems.
Build the pipeline properly once, and the same model gives you 2x better answers.
If you're stuck on this, drop a comment with your case. Happy to debug for free, I learn from each one.
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