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. 🫣

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Withdraw AI policy, Malatsi told, as fake citations row grows

Hallucinated citations have landed communications minister Solly Malatsi in a political storm, with his credibility on the line.

^{Duncan McLeod (TechCentral)}