Deloitte will partially refund the federal government after admitting to using artificial intelligence in a $440,000 report that contained several errors.

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) commissioned Deloitte to review its targeted compliance framework and IT system in December 2024, but the report came back littered with mistakes in the references and footnotes.

The report has since been corrected with deleted references and footnotes, corrections to errors and a new reference list.

A DEWR spokesperson confirmed that the firm will repay the final instalment under its contract over the issue, which will be made public after the transaction is finalised.

University of Sydney welfare academic Chris Rudge was the first to notice more than a dozen mistakes whe

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