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Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

Source: The Register

Article note: Lol. The major consulting firms were always slop machines to create fake justifications and outsource responsibility, but if people start finding out they're genuinely just sending unchecked AI slop, the grift will fall apart.

Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom footnotes, and even a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment.…

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