How Much Do Legal RAG Systems Still Hallucinate?

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arXiv:2608.14210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hallucination is a major challenge for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in the legal domain, where ungrounded answers can lead to serious consequences. To better understand this problem, we conduct a fine-grained analysis of hallucination behavior in eight legal RAG systems across two legal corpora, the GDPR (in English) and a national civil law (in French). Using claim-level and answer-level evaluation, we report on hallucination den