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South Africa withdraws AI policy after it was found written by AI (www.the-independent.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Communications minister, Solly Malatsi, withdrew the draft policy after finding that at least 6 of its 67 academic citations were AI-generated hallucinations that cited journal articles that don’t exist.

Setting aside the issue of whether where the text came from was appropriate, human or computer or whatnot, I also kind of feel like the legislators and legal people involved should be...you know, doing a careful reading of the actual legislation before it goes to the public for comments.