How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A? Key Lessons from a 172B-Token Study

If you are building a RAG system, internal knowledge assistant, or document search chatbot, one question matters more than almost anything else: When the answer is supposed to come from the provided documents, how often does the model still make things up? That is exactly what the March 9, 2026 paper “How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms” tries to measure. ...

March 13, 2026 · 9 min · Nitin