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South African AI policy withdrawn over AI-hallucinated citations

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South Africa's draft AI policy has been withdrawn by the communications minister due to the inclusion of fabricated citations. These non-existent references were likely generated by an AI, leading to embarrassment and the policy's retraction. The issue came to light through media reports, prompting the withdrawal. AI

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IMPACT Highlights the risks of AI hallucination in policy drafting and the need for human oversight.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research-related issue where AI hallucinated citations within a policy document, leading to its withdrawal.

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    Well, this is embarrassing: our communications minister has had to withdraw the draft AI policy after it surfaced that said policy contained multiple citations

    Well, this is embarrassing: our communications minister has had to withdraw the draft AI policy after it surfaced that said policy contained multiple citations to articles or even whole publications which don't exist and were most likely hallucinated by AI. 🫣 https:// techcentral…

    LINKS techcentral.co.za/…/280660

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