Financial consulting firm Deloitte was forced to reissue the Australian government $291,000 US after getting caught using AI and including hallucinated numbers in a recent report.

As The Guardian reports, Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) confirmed that the firm agreed to repay the final installment as part of its contract. It had been commissioned in December to review a system that automates penalties in the welfare system in case jobseekers don’t meet their mutual obligations.

However, the “independent assurance review” bore concerning signs that Deloitte had cut corners, and included multiple errors such as references to nonexistent citations — a hallmark of AI slop.

The “hallucinations” once again highlight how generative AI use in the workplace ca

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