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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Vishwam Sankaran

South Africa withdraws AI policy after it was found written by AI

South Africa has decided to withdraw its draft national AI policy after it was found that some of the rules were AI-generated, citing fictional sources.

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.

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