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Knowledge Poisoning: A Correct Answer From Wrong Knowledge

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CatalEx Engineering
The team building CatalEx
CatalEx Engineering · Published August 25, 2026 · 09:00 UTC

An agent can give a completely correct answer based on completely wrong company knowledge. The reasoning is sound, the citation is real, the document exists — and the number in it has been wrong since March.

This is the failure enterprises underestimate, because it doesn't look like a failure. There's no error, no refusal, no hedge. Retrieval worked. Generation worked. The system did exactly what it was built to do, on top of a corpus nobody was accountable for.