I’m reminded of that recent incident where it was discovered that the South African regulatory agency responsible for writing rules for the safe and appropriate use of AI had used an LLM to generate the text they submitted and apparently not validated it prior to the submission.
I’m reminded of that recent incident where it was discovered that the South African regulatory agency responsible for writing rules for the safe and appropriate use of AI had used an LLM to generate the text they submitted and apparently not validated it prior to the submission.
https://www.cnbcafrica.com/2026/south-africa-pulls-ai-policy-after-hallucinated-citations-expose-drafting-scandal
I think that we need to reframe the verbiage from ‘hallucination’ or ‘mistake’ to lies.
AI lies all the time. Confidently and to the harm of it’s users.