"New errors have been found in a major report Deloitte prepared for the federal government, raising further suspicions some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.

On Friday The Australian Financial Review revealed that Deloitte’s report for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations on welfare compliance systems, which cost taxpayers $439,000, contained at least half a dozen references to academic works that do not exist.

Deloitte declined to answer questions about whether AI was used to write the report. Paul Rovere

The welfare academic who discovered the incorrect references, Chris Rudge, has found the report also contains an apparently invented quote from the decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

Deloitte said that in that case “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Davies) had said at paragraphs 25 and 26: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

No such quote appears in the consent orders issued by Federal Court Justice Jennifer Davies on November 27, 2019 – in fact, the orders do not contain a paragraph 25 or 26. Another quote, cited as drawn from paragraph 30, actually comes from paragraph 9."

https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/deloitte-report-suspected-of-ai-invented-quote-from-robo-debt-case-20250825-p5mpjj

#Australia #Deloitte #AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations #Chatbots #LLMs

"Asked one major industry analyst: ‘Who is going to be motivated to adopt if they know the intent is to replace them?’

Nearly one in three (31%) company employees say they are “sabotaging their company’s generative AI strategy,” according to a survey from AI vendor Writer — a number that jumps to 41% for millennial and Gen Z employees.

The survey also found that “one out of ten workers say they’re tampering with performance metrics to make it appear AI is underperforming, intentionally generating low-quality outputs, refusing to use generative AI tools or outputs, or refusing to take generative AI training.”

Other activities lumped in as sabotage include entering company information into non-approved gen AI tools (27%), using non-approved gen AI tools (20%), and knowing of an AI security leak without reporting it (16%)."

https://www.cio.com/article/4022953/31-of-employees-are-sabotaging-your-gen-ai-strategy.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #Automation

"Some kind of redesign of educational practice might be required, which is easy for me to say in an article. Instead of an answer, I have an approach to thinking about the answer that has been bouncing around in my brain. Are you familiar with the concept in software development called technical debt? In the software world, you make the decision about how to design or implement a system that feels good and right at the time. And maybe you know it’s going to be a bad idea in the long run, but for now, it makes sense and it is convenient. But you never get around to really making it better later on, and so you have all these nonoptimal aspects of your infrastructure.

That’s the state I feel like we’re in, at least in the university. It’s a little different in high school, especially in public high school, with these different regulatory regimes at work. But we accrued all this pedagogical debt, and not just since AI—there are aspects of teaching that we ought to be paying more attention to or doing better, like, this class needs to be smaller, or these kinds of assignments don’t work unless you have a lot of hands-on iterative feedback. We’ve been able to survive under the weight of pedagogical debt, and now something snapped. AI entered the scene and all of those bad or questionable—but understandable—decisions about how to design learning experiences are coming home to roost."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/08/ai-high-school-college/684057/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #University #HigherEd #College #Education #Academia #CriticalThinking

Apple Intelligence is going to be an example of how companies can take advantage of on device AI, and it can only get better from here. I can't wait to see what apps use Foundation Models, and what #shortcuts use the Use Model action. #AI #AppleIntelligence

JSTOR Profiled in "How an Academic Archive Became a Tech Juggernaut" (via Chronicle of Philanthropy)
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/how-an-academic-archive-became-a-tech-juggernaut #AI #libraries @jstor

@gabrielesvelto

there is a dark/ humorous corollary to the problem you've identified:

everything getting labelled #AI

even things not AI

when the decision makers are in the throes of mania, to get approval or funding: it just gets called AI, whatever it is, and then green lights

call it malicious compliance to mass hysteria not grounded in technical acumen

"we need a new door"

"don't have the funding"

"the door is AI: it senses when someone approaches, and slides open"

"approved!"

This article is trying to get a conversation on "AI ethics" in product management going. It gets pretty close to the point, but without talking about overall product ethics, this notion of AI ethics is unlikely to go anywhere.

It also falls into the regular trap of relying on these corporate "responsible AI offices" to lead, and again, we know how that goes. To quote someone at Hugging Face on an article on AI ethics is hilarious.

They also cited Dr Emily Bender, but just on AI capabilities and not on AI ethics. Which is ridiculous.

Don't get me wrong, I'm always wildly excited when product people write about ethics. I just wish we could take a wider lens social-good approach to it.

https://www.prodpad.com/blog/ethics-in-ai/

#product #AI

Public Service Announcement:

When someone says "I googled it" they NO LONGER MEAN "I did a web search and this is what one of the web sites that came up in the search said"...

..."I googled it" *now* means "I typed a question into google and google's AI spit out this answer."

Please adjust your conversation and cultural assumptions accordingly.

#AI #LLM

The most frustrating thing about the whole #Firefox #AI tab group classification is that the firefox tab group UX is clumsy as fuck and it could use a lot of love. But no, instead they bolt on some CPU burning AI nonsense that makes everything worse.

After several reports of disturbing incidents, OpenAI says it will safeguard ChatGPT for teens and people in crisis.

@axios reports: "One way to potentially mitigate these tragedies is to stop allowing ChatGPT or other bots to act as therapists — or to stop designing them to act like any person at all."

https://flip.it/4bXTe2

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #MentalHealth

and btw, there is another lie.
now i'm not to fond of #npr as they're too librel for my daily news (I use fox) but we can use them as a source.
they recently did an interview with the CEO of Roblox, and I particularly looked at their safety policies.
first off, #age estimation using #ai is completely #useless AI makes a lot of mistakes, and miners is something you absolutely cannot fuck up.
second, really? trusted connections? sounds like censorship if you ask me.
these have nothing to do with #safety .
they also said absolutely nothing about #csam / #csem materials on the platform.
if you really wanted to do child safety, you'd let them report messages. actively work with law enforcement agencies to do CSEM scanning and scan for sensitive words. hell, you might even work with what you call, ivdualanties, like shlep who do a good job at catching these people. the fuckin guy even said he would work with you If you just gave him a line, he has no problem doing that. and I can tell you from experience and noticing other friends play Roblox it is not filtered.
I do not trust at all Roblox is safe!
ever!
and btw, here's that artical from NPR.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-23/roblox-ceo-on-platforms-safety-efforts-as-congress-works-to-protect-kids-online

I will tell you one thing I have took from this, they are only doing this age stuff because federal and state require it. that's the only reason why. not because they care, just because they can get their federal reviews and money.

Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘#AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/02/wired-business-insider-editors-duped-by-completely-bogus-ai-using-journalist-who-made-up-towns-people-that-dont-exist/ #tut

#Nigeria pushes indigenous languages into #AI with homegrown #LLM - https://techcabal.com/2025/09/02/nigeria-pushes-indigenous-languages-into-ai-with-homegrown-llm/

Sovereign AI is becoming a global priority 🌍

📊 State of Sovereign AI 2025:
79% say it’s strategic
90% see open source as the base
93% stress global collaboration

Sovereignty ≠ isolation—it’s control + collaboration.

📖 Read more: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/state-of-sovereign-ai?hsLang=en

#SovereignAI #OpenSource #AI #Research #LinuxFoundation

AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious.

From @AssociatedPress: "At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence."

https://flip.it/QNbIjp

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology

who could have possibly predicted th^H^H

#ai #crime

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/the-vibes-are-bad-because-vibe-hacking-is-real-ai-company-anthropic-says-agentic-ai-has-been-weaponized-and-is-now-being-used-to-do-major-international-crime/

“Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Actually Make Us Busier in the Future”

I tend to agree. Not better, just busier. Just more stuff to keep up and consume.
#genai #nvidia #techbros #ai

https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-ceo-says-ai-will-actually-make-us-busier-in-the-future-2000650610

Chatbots Are Susceptible to Flattery and Peer Pressure (THE VERGE, 31 Aug 2025)
https://www.theverge.com/news/768508/chatbots-are-susceptible-to-flattery-and-peer-pressure

#AI #MediaLit #edtech #ethics #AIsafety #edtechSR