"I instantaneously knew it was either hallucinated by AI or the world's best kept secret because I'd never heard of the book and it sounded preposterous."
"They've totally misquoted a court case then made up a quotation from a judge and I thought, well hang on: that's actually a bit bigger than academics' egos. That's about misstating the law to the Australian government in a report that they rely on. So I thought it was important to stand up for diligence,"
"misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent."
"I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for."
The Australian government paid Deloitte A$440,000 for a report on automated penalties in the welfare system. A law professor identified roughly 20 errors, including fabricated references, a suspicious citation to Lisa Burton Crawford, misquoted caselaw and an invented judicial quotation. Deloitte reissued the report, stating the recommendations and "substance" remained unchanged, confirmed some footnotes and references were incorrect, disclosed use of Azure OpenAI, and said a partial refund was arranged with the client. A senator demanded a full refund and criticized the inappropriate use of AI and the misstatement of legal authorities.
Read at Above the Law
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