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Your RAG system retrieves contradictory information from different documents. How do you handle conflicts?

Real corpora contradict themselves (old vs new policy, different teams), and naive RAG silently picks one or blends them into a wrong answer. The signal is detecting conflict and resolving it by recency, authority, and transparency.

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Real corpora contradict themselves (old vs new policy, different teams), and naive RAG silently picks one or blends them into a wrong answer. The signal is detecting conflict and resolving it by recency, authority, and transparency.

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