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2d ago

Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

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Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olG8wvK8SpA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast

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2d ago

Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/28/deloitte-australia-writes-government-report-with-ai-and-fake-references/

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How come I can't get paid $400k to spit out some AI slop
This is a theory I had put forward before: Made-up (but plausible-sounding) sources are probably one of the few reliable “AI detectors.” Lazy people would not normally bother to come up with something like this themselves.
- Its probably the most reliable AI detector there is.
  Even if someone's actively misrepresenting statistics/sources to push some kind of grift, those underlying stats/sources are near-certainly going to be genuine if they aren't using AI - not out of any moral obligation, but because made-up stats/sources will get their entire grift thrown out if they're discovered.
  
  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.
Lazy fucking cunts.