Description: Australian academics reportedly identified fabricated references and a misattributed legal quote in a $439,000 Deloitte report for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations on welfare compliance. Deleted citations allegedly referred to non-existent works, and a Federal Court judgment was misstated. Deloitte later acknowledged limited use of generative AI in preparing the report and issued a corrected version with a partial refund.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown large language model developer developed an AI system deployed by Deloitte, which harmed Deloitte , Scholars erroneously cited , Lisa Burton Crawford , Janina Boughey , Government of Australia , General public of Australia , Epistemic integrity , Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) , Carolyn Adams and Academics.
Alleged implicated AI system: Unknown large language model
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1193
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2025-08-22
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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New errors have been found in a major report Deloitte prepared for the federal government, raising further suspicions some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.
On Friday The Australian Financial Review revealed that Delo…
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Edmund Tadros, Paul Karp post-incident response
Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references an…
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