Deloitte will refund part of a $440,000 fee to the Australian government after using generative AI in producing a report that contained full of mistakes and made up points.
University of Sydney academic Christopher Rudge, who first identified the errors, attributed them to AI “hallucinations” where AI models can generate flawed data by trying to fill in gaps or guessing answers. “Instead of just substituting one hallucinated fake reference for a new ‘real’ reference, they’ve substituted the fake hallucinated references, and in the new version, there’s like five, six or seven or eight in their place,” he said.
