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Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

because made-up stats/sources will get their entire grift thrown out if they’re discovered

I believe it is not just that. Making up some of those references as a human (in a way that sounds credible) would require quite a lot of effort and creativity. I think this is a case where the AI actually performs “excellently” at a task that is less than useless in practice.