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aminerjtoday at 8:15 AM0 repliesview on HN

The multi-edition cross-referencing is a natural implementation of what the embedding anomaly detection layer does artificially; a poisoned document that contradicts centuries of independently verified canonical text would cluster anomalously against the existing corpus almost immediately. Your attack surface is genuinely different from enterprise RAG.

The hallucination problem you're describing is in some ways the inverse of poisoning. Poisoning is external content overriding legitimate content. Hallucination is the model generating content that was never in the knowledge base at all. The defenses diverge at that point. Retrieval grounding and citation verification help with hallucination, ingestion controls don't.