"The Australian Financial Review reports that Deloitte Australia will offer the Australian government a partial refund for a report that was littered with AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research. Deloitte's "Targeted Compliance Framework Assurance Review" was finalized in July and published by Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) in August ( Internet Archive version of the original)."
"Shortly after the report was published, though, Sydney University Deputy Director of Health Law Chris Rudge noticed citations to multiple papers and publications that did not exist. That included multiple references to nonexistent reports by Lisa Burton Crawford, a real professor at the University of Sydney law school. "It is concerning to see research attributed to me in this way," Crawford told the AFR in August. "I would like to see an explanation from Deloitte as to how the citations were generated.""
Deloitte Australia offered a partial refund after a government assurance report contained fabricated citations and AI-generated quotes. The Targeted Compliance Framework Assurance Review was finalized in July and published by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; the report cost nearly $440,000 AUD and examined the technical framework used to automate welfare penalties. Multiple citations to nonexistent papers were identified, including false references attributed to Professor Lisa Burton Crawford. Deloitte and DEWR released an updated 273-page report correcting references and footnotes and disclosed use of "a generative AI large language model (Azure OpenAI GPT-4o) based tool chain" in the technical workstream.
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