RAG poisoning creates false confidence: monitoring attention beats uncertainty checks
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-20
A new paper reveals a RAG security risk where malicious documents increase model confidence and consistency, fooling uncertainty-based detectors. This "Attention Collapse" concentrates focus on poisoned content. Checking final answers isn't enough; monitoring attention distribution across retrieved documents is necessary to detect poisoning.
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