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TL;DR: We keep optimizing retrieval, but are the documents we feed to LLMs safe to chunk without losing crucial qualifying context? When users bulldoze files blindly to RAG, hallucinations can start even before retrieval runs. Concrete example: in this biology paper, the parameter β for prokaryotes appears as 0.33, 0.73,...

TL;DR: A published biology paper reports β=0.33, β=0.73, and β=1.68 for the same parameter: all correct, different scaling regimes, properly explained fourteen pages later. But when this paper gets chunked for a RAG knowledge base, the reconciliation context disappears. A user asking "What's β for prokaryotes?" gets confidently wrong information....