Comment by shakna
15 hours ago
> Rollout hasn't even begun yet which you can
If rollout at Deloitte has not yet begun... How on earth did this clusterfuck [0] happen?
> Deloitte’s member firm in Australia will pay the government a partial refund for a $290,000 report that contained alleged AI-generated errors, including references to non-existent academic research papers and a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment.
[0] https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/deloitte-ai-australia-governm...
Because even if an organisation hasn't rolled out generative AI tools and policies centrally yet, individuals might just use their personal plans anyway (potentially in violation with their contract)? I believe that's called "shadow AI".
Its a $400+k report to a government, where the references either weren't audited, or only audited by the AI system that regurgitated them.
That requires more than a single person's involvement.
Correct. Where I work we are only "allowed" to use AI since December 2025.
But obviously people were copy/pasting content to ChatGPT and Claude long before that.
Haven't even read the source, but I like how it's "a partial refund". The chutzpah to deliver absolute nonsense[0] and then give a partial refund!
[0]: If it contains references to nonexistent papers and fabricated quotes, the conclusions of the report are highly doubtful at best.
290 out of 440 isn't that bad, when Deloitte claim the AI stuff is only secondary supporting claims and had zero effect, and they did hand over a corrected report (with real references) without asking for more.
... And they did also get blacklisted for the next report.