Description: Australian academics reportedly identified alleged fabricated references and a misattributed legal quote in a $439,000 Deloitte report for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations on welfare compliance. Several citations allegedly referred to works that do not exist, and a Federal Court decision was reportedly misstated. Experts allege the errors suggest use of generative AI. Deloitte has denied wrongdoing, but DEWR is investigating.
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View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown large language model developer developed an AI system deployed by Deloitte, which harmed Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) , Government of Australia , General public of Australia , Epistemic integrity , Academics , Lisa Burton Crawford , Carolyn Adams , Janina Boughey and Scholars erroneously cited.
Alleged implicated AI system: Unknown large language model
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Incident ID
1193
Report Count
1
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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